US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 4 for "Hardware acceleration for function processing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,093, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware acceleration for function processing" was invented by Prateek Tandon (Issaquah, Wash.) and Brian Jacob Corell (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function processing service may receive a request to execute source code. The source code may include instructions to perform a function. The function processing service may determine whether at least one hardware acceleration condition has been satisfied for the function. If at least one hardware acceleration condition has been satisfied, the instructions in the source code m...