ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,988, issued on May 26, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Methods and allocators for allocating portions of a storage unit using virtual partitioning" was invented by Ian King (Shenley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and storage unit allocators for allocating one or more portions of a storage unit to a plurality of tasks for storing at least two types of data. The method includes receiving a request for one or more portions of the storage unit to store a particular type of data of the at least two types of data for a task of the plurality of tasks; associating the reque...