US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 20 for "Probation of direct memory access device used for direct device assignment" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,685, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Probation of direct memory access device used for direct device assignment" was invented by Jin Lin (Seattle), Cody Dean Hartwig (Seattle) and Jason Stewart Wohlgemuth (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Probation of direct memory access (DMA) device used for direct device assignment. A virtualization computer system identifies a peripheral device as being removed from a direct assignment to a first operating context of a virtualization environment. The peripheral device is DMA capable. The virtualization computer system assigns the peri...