ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,818, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Unified address translation for virtualization of input/output devices" was invented by Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar (Hillsboro, Ore.), Rajesh M. Sankaran (Portland, Ore.), Philip R. Lantz (Cornelius, Ore.), Ashok Raj (Portland, Ore.) and Kun Tian (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for unified address translation for virtualization of input/output devices are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes first circuitry to use at least an identifier of a device to locate...