US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 4 for "Memory buffer management on hardware devices utilizing distributed decentralized memory buffer monitoring" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,904, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Memory buffer management on hardware devices utilizing distributed decentralized memory buffer monitoring" was invented by Yi Yuan (Redmond, Wash.), Narayanan Ravichandran (Bellevue, Wash.), Robert Groza Jr. (Redmond, Wash.), Yevgeny Yankilevich (Tirat Carmel, Israel) and Hari Daas Angepat (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to utilizing a buffer management system to efficiently manage and deallocate memory buffers utilized by multiple processing roles on computer hardware devices. For example, the buf...