ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,023, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Memory management in data processing systems" was invented by Kushal Dalmia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrey V. Talnikov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lionel D. Desai (San Francisco) and Russell A. Blaine (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory management in a data processing system can learn one or more behaviors of software processes such as daemon software processes and application processes, and based on information learned about the behaviors, the memory management can adjust how it controls memory usage in the system. For example, a memory manageme...