US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Page tag-based memory trap-and-emulate operations" (Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,664, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Page tag-based memory trap-and-emulate operations" was invented by Nathan Yong Seng Chong (Ponte Vedra, Fla.) and Karimallah Ahmed Mohammed Raslan (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hypervisor comprising a plurality of emulation routines is launched at a host. Individual emulation routines are used to perform respective tasks by a hypervisor on behalf of guest virtual machines of the host. A guest virtual machine initiates an operation which requires access to a virtual address. Subsequent to a determination by a memory management unit of the h...