US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "Tracking memory defects using a shared memory defect list" (New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,484, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tracking memory defects using a shared memory defect list" was invented by John Aaron Strange (Everett, Wash.) and Christina Margaret Tobias (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for tracking defective memory using a shared memory defect list. Embodiments include firmware that identifies a memory buffer to store a list that includes an entry identifying a portion of memory as defective. The firmware sends an identification of the memory buffer to an operating system. The operating s...