ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,215, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods, systems, and non-transitory storage media for graphics memory allocation" was invented by Xiaofeng Mei (Hangzhou, China), Yao Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Junping Zhao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to a graphics memory allocation request generated during the running of a target task and for graphics memory needed during running of the target task, target data generated during running of each sub-task of multiple sub-tasks is classified, where a type of the target data comprises at least f...