US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 22 for "Writeback control for read-destructive computer memory" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,078, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Writeback control for read-destructive computer memory" was invented by Ori Laslo (Rehovot, Israel) and Gilad Kirshenboim (Petach Tiqva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving a read instruction and determining a read address in computer memory corresponding to the read instruction, where the read address references a cell within a row of read-destructive computer memory. The method further comprises determining a discard state for data stored in the row according to a usage of the data, the discard state being ...