ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,124, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cached random access memory (RAM) counter system" was invented by Tama Gal (Haifa, Israel), Yevgeny Yankilevich (Tirat Carmel, Israel) and Gil Savir (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cached random access memory (RAM) counter system comprises a plurality of incremental counter circuits associated with a plurality of count values that each maintain a plurality of least-significant bits of a respective count value and a respective carry bit; a RAM circuit that stores a plurality of most-significant bits of each respective count va...