US Patent Issued to Dover Microsystems on March 18 for "Systems and methods for caching metadata" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,944, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dover Microsystems Inc. (Wayland, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for caching metadata" was invented by Steven Milburn (Wayland, Mass.) and Nirmal Nepal (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for caching metadata. In some embodiments, in response to an access request comprising an application memory address, it may be determined whether the application memory address matches an entry of at least one cache. In response to determining that the application memory address does not match any entry of the at least one cache: the application memory address may be used to ret...