ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,611, issued on May 27, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Logical memory addressing for network devices" was invented by Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Shay Vargaftik (Herzliya, Israel), Igor Golikov (Herzliya, Israel), Yaniv Ben-Itzhak (Herzliya, Israel) and Avishay Yanai (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for, at a network interface controller (NIC) of a computer, accessing data in a network. From the computer, the method receives a request to access data stored at a logical memory address. The method translates the logical memory address into a memory address of a ...