US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Local non-volatile memory express virtualization device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,273, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Local non-volatile memory express virtualization device" was invented by Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.), Aaron William Ogus (Woodinville, Wash.) and Jason David Adrian (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server system is provided that includes one or more compute nodes that include at least one processor and a host memory device. The server system further includes a plurality of solid-state drive (SSD) devices, a local non-volatile memory express virtualization (LNV) device, and a non-transparent (NT) switch for a peripher...