ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,653, issued on April 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Memory migration and page fault avoidance" was invented by Prashanth Prakash (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jerome Charles Jean Glisse (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accessing information associated with a virtual memory address by receiving a virtual memory address, translating the virtual memory address into a nominal physical memory address, receiving the nominal physical memory address at a memory migrator, and using the memory migrator to determine an old physical memory address corresponding to the nominal physical memory address and acce...