US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Employing sampled register values to infer memory accesses by an application" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,875, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Employing sampled register values to infer memory accesses by an application" was invented by Danny Chen (Woodinville, Wash.), Colin M. Francis (Bellevue, Wash.) and Eric M. Vaughn (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to memory access profiling. One example relates to a method or technique that can include obtaining samples collected when executing an application, the samples comprising sampled register values that were present in one or more registers of a processor when the samples were collected. The method...