ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,024, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Low overhead logging" was invented by George Hilliard (Austin, Texas) and Laura Sharpless (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device may obtain machine instructions for a program that include a logging machine instruction to store metadata in a buffer. The IC device may execute the machine instructions for the program, and store the metadata in the buffer upon executing the logging machine instruction. The logging machine instruction may be generated by compiling code for storing the metadata into a single machine ins...