US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for managing dirty data" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,753, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for managing dirty data" was invented by Kevin Neal Magill (Durham, N.C.), Eric Francis Robinson (Raleigh, N.C.), Jason Lawrence Panavich (Raleigh, N.C.), Michael Bryan Mitchell (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.) and Michael Peter Wilson (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for managing dirty data. An agent receives a request for data. If the data is dirty data, the agent may use a replacement policy to determine if the data should be passed clean or dirty to the ...