US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 11 for "Runtime allocation and utilization of persistent memory as volatile memory" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,176, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Runtime allocation and utilization of persistent memory as volatile memory" was invented by Neal Robert Christiansen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Scott Chao-Chueh Lee (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technologies enable a computing device to allocate at least a portion of its persistent memory as volatile memory during runtime. At least some implementations create a file in the persistent memory of the computing device. The file is created in the persistent memory of the computing device during runtime of a virtual mach...