US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "User mode direct data access to non-volatile memory express device via kernel-managed queue pair" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,536, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"User mode direct data access to non-volatile memory express device via kernel-managed queue pair" was invented by Ming Jin (Shanghai), Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.), Ji Dai (Shanghai), Tengda Yan (Shanghai), Yuan Yi (Shanghai), Chuanjun Yin (Shanghai) and Scott Chao-Chueh Lee (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) driver in a computer system. The method involves mapping a memory buffer into a user mode address space to facilitate data tran...