US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 21 for "Memory management unit and method of walking page table" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,164, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory management unit and method of walking page table" was invented by Jiwon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Won Woo Ro (Seoul, South Korea), Ipoom Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Hongju Kal (Seoul, South Korea), Gun Ko (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunwuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management unit includes a TLB configured to cache PTEs including a mapping between a virtual and a physical frame number, and to convert a virtual address into a physical address using the cached PTEs. A page table walk request queue is...