US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Memory usage in managed runtime applications" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,122, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory usage in managed runtime applications" was invented by Han B. Lee (Sammamish, Wash.), Simonjit Dutta (Seattle), Rodolfo G. Esteves Jaramillo (Sammamish, Wash.), Poornima S. Kumar (Bellevue, Wash.), Chanchala Roy Lairikyengbam (Redmond, Wash.) and Weilin Wang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Live objects in heap memory exceeding a threshold size and that have not been recently accessed are compressed or offloaded to secondary memory or storage. Compressing or offloading an object can further be based on how old the object is, which can be ...