ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,380, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Caching a memory descriptor for plural input/output requests" was invented by Chandra Kumar Konamki Vijayamuneeswaralu (Redmond, Wash.), Neal Robert Christiansen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Landy Wang (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Caching a memory descriptor across input/output (I/O) requests. Based at least on receiving a request from a buffer consumer to register a buffer, a memory descriptor describing a layout of a set of physical memory pages assigned to the buffer is created. Creating the memory descriptor includes assigning and...