US Patent Issued to MediaTek on March 31 for "Hardware virtual machine for controlling access to physical memory space" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,444, issued on March 31, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Hardware virtual machine for controlling access to physical memory space" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Hsiao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Hung-Wen Chien (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system controls access to a physical address (PA) space. The system includes multiple system resources addressable within the PA space, and multiple processing circuits executing multiple virtual machines (VMs). A given region of the PA space is dedicated to addressing the VMs. The system also includes multiple memory management units (MMUs) coupled to ...