US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 15 for "Memory address compression within an execution trace" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,069, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Memory address compression within an execution trace" was invented by Jordi Mola (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compressing memory addresses within an execution trace via reference to a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) entry. A microprocessor identifies a TLB entry within a TLB slot, the TLB entry mapping a virtual memory page to a physical memory page. The microprocessor initiates logging of the TLB entry by initiating logging of at least a virtual address of the virtual memory page, and an identifier that uniquely identi...