ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,610, issued on June 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Object-level metadata locator" was invented by Mohamed Tarek Bnziad Mohamed Hassan (Lowell, Mass.) and Aamer Jaleel (Northborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata generally refers to data that describes, or gives information about, other data. Metadata can be used for a wide variety of purposes, including for ensuring the safety of memory accesses. For example, to prevent memory safety errors, metadata, which indicates the base address and size of the data, can be used to validate memory access requests as prerequisite to allowing the memory acce...