ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,752, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtual machine live migration with direct-attached non-volatile memory express device" was invented by Martijn De Kort (Mill Creek, Wash.), Matthew David Kurjanowicz (Wenatchee, Wash.), Yuriy Pavlenko (Lake Forest, Calif.), Lei Kou (Redmond, Wash.) and Sangeeth Kumar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device identifies a first entry, at a virtual submission queue, which includes a command identifier and an opcode. The device determines, based on the opcode, that a command is to be either: emulated by a virtual non-volatile memo...