US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 24 for "Faster computer memory access by reducing SLAT fragmentation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,595, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Faster computer memory access by reducing SLAT fragmentation" was invented by Yevgeniy Bak (Redmond, Wash.), Mehmet Iyigun (Kirkland, Wash.) and Jonathan E. Lange (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To increase the speed with which a Second Layer Address Table (SLAT) is traversed, memory having the same access permissions is contiguously arranged such that one or more hierarchical levels of the SLAT need not be referenced, thereby resulting in more efficient SLAT traversal. "Slabs" of memory are established whose memory range is suffic...