US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Computing device with independently coherent nodes" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,031, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computing device with independently coherent nodes" was invented by Siamak Tavallaei (Spring, Texas) and Ishwar Agarwal (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes a system-on-a-chip. The computing device comprises a network interface controller (NIC) that hosts a plurality of virtual functions and physical functions. Two or more compute nodes are coupled to the NIC. Each compute node is configured to operate a plurality of Virtual Machines (VMs). Each VM is configured to operate in conjunction with a virtual...