US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 28 for "Compressing data portions in a translation lookaside buffer" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,832, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compressing data portions in a translation lookaside buffer" was invented by Adrian Montero (Austin, Texas), Roshan Sreekumar Nair (Austin, Texas) and Vikas Kumar Sinha (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for translation lookaside buffer (TLB) compression. Embodiments include determining that a plurality of physical memory addresses, associated with a plurality of virtual memory addresses, are contiguous with one another and share one or more common address bits or one or more common...