ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,847, issued on July 14, was assigned to APEX.AI INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Safe shared-memory communication" was invented by Michael Pohnl (Wurmberg, Germany) and Christian Eltzschig (Ludwigsfelde, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to safe shared-memory communication between processes. In an embodiment, a data structure for communicating data references, to data in a shared memory, from a sender to a receiver, free from interference, is generated and maintained. The data structure may comprise a queue of the data references that is both readable and writable by the sender and only readable by the receive...