ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,757, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for object-oriented memory management with extended segmentation" was invented by Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.), Barry E. Huntley (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Ravi Sahita (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for memory management with memory protection extension include a computing device having a processor with one or more protection extensions. The processor may load a logical address including a segment base, effective limit, and effective address and generate a linear address as a function of the logical address with the e...