ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,918, issued on June 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"High performance memory allocator" was invented by Abhishek Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srinivas Vaduvatha (San Jose, Calif.), Weiwei Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hugh McEvoy Walsh (Los Gatos, Calif.), Weihuang Wang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jiazhen Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ajay Venkatesan (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a memory allocator for assigning contiguous memory space for data packets in on-chip memory of a network interface card. The memory allocator includes a plurality of sub-allocator...