US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 10 for "Dynamically allocatable physically addressed metadata storage" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,809, issued on June 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamically allocatable physically addressed metadata storage" was invented by David Thomas Chisnall (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nathaniel Wesley Filardo (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Robert McNeill Norton-Wright (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples there is a computing device comprising a processor, the processor having a memory management unit. The computing device also has a memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the memory management unit to receive a memory access ins...