US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 8 for "High-performance microcoded text parser" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,965, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"High-performance microcoded text parser" was invented by Daniel Lo (Bothell, Wash.) and Blake D. Pelton (Redmond, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The performance of a text parser implemented with a state machine is improved by reducing a critical dependence path. In one aspect, all possible current states for a given text input are read from a state table circuit, and the correct next state and output are then selected therefrom by an output multiplexer based on the current state, removing dependence on the current state from the table ...