Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Assigned Patent

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI, has been assigned a patent (12189966) developed by Swift; Michael, and Yadalam Sudarshan; Sujay, Madison, WI, for a “storage I/O management unit for solid-state drives.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An I/O memory management unit operates to provide hardware moderated restrictions on access to internal I/O device addresses of I/O devices eliminating the interposition of the operating system in such data transfers. As well as providing read/write permissions, the I/O memory management unit can perform address translation for virtualization and may be the combined with the functions of an IOMMU for managing physical addresses.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-04-03 (18/194929).