US Patent Issued to Arm on July 29 for "Access state for page table entries" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,354, issued on July 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Access state for page table entries" was invented by Jean-Philippe Brucker (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for address translation is provided in order to translate virtual addresses used by devices in a data processing system into physical addresses for accessing memory. In accordance with the techniques disclosed herein, state tracking circuitry is provided to maintain the state of a page table entry that specifies such address translations. The state can be used to assess whether or not the address translation entry ...