ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,520, issued on March 31, was assigned to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Linear to physical address translation with support for page attributes" was invented by Ben-Zion Friedman (Jerusalem), Jacob Doweck (Haifa, Israel), Eliezer Weissmann (Haifa, Israel), James B. Crossland (Banks, Ore.) and Ohad Falik (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for linear to physical address translation with support for page attributes. In some embodiments, a system receives an instruction to translate a memory pointer to a physical mem...