US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Resource leak detection and reclamation in run-to-completion execution systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,403, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Resource leak detection and reclamation in run-to-completion execution systems" was invented by Todd Freed (Woodinville, Wash.), David James Goodell (Seattle) and Schuyler David Thompson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for resource leak detection and reclamation are described. Application code executed by multiple processors is modified, during runtime, to insert an unconditional branch into the code leading to separate accounting code, which registers accesses to particular resources in a data structure. The unconditional branch is later ...