US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 18 for "Maintaining contiguity of virtual to physical address mappings to exploit contiguity-aware translation look-aside buffer hardware" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,059, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Maintaining contiguity of virtual to physical address mappings to exploit contiguity-aware translation look-aside buffer hardware" was invented by Aravinda Prasad (Bangalore, India) and Sreenivas Subramoney (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are generally directed to maintaining contiguity of virtual to physical address mappings to exploit a contiguity-aware TLB. In an example, information regarding a migration set of one or more pages within a physical address space that have been identified for migration from a sou...