US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 16 for "Dynamic direct memory access mapping for peripheral devices" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,185, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Dynamic direct memory access mapping for peripheral devices" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables receiving, by an operating system running on a host computer system, a request to map a physical address associated with a peripheral device, identifying, based on the request, a mapping type, wherein the mapping type is one of: a first mapping type or a second mapping type, mapping, based on the mapping type of the request, the physical address to a virtual address referencing ...