ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,870, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Systems and methods for moving data between system components" was invented by John A. Tardif (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for moving data between electronic system components using buffers. A digital processor stores data generated in response to a series of commands in a first buffer. Commands are received with a reference to a second buffer. The digital processor tracks the last location that a data result was stored in the first buffer. When a data result fills the...