US Patent Issued to MIPS Tech on April 1 for "Translating virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,475, issued on April 1, was assigned to MIPS Tech LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Translating virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses" was invented by James Robinson (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a virtual address from a request to access a memory of the computing device, where virtual addresses are translated to physical addresses of physical memory in the computing device using an N-level page table, and the lowest level of the page table contains page-table entries specifying the physical address of a frame of physical memory. The method includes searching, using the...