ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,019, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Implementing heterogeneous memory within a programming environment" was invented by Daniel Waddington (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes creating a data abstraction that includes a set of memory resources and variables associated with the memory resources. The computer-implemented method also includes implementing the data abstraction within a programming language environment. A system according to another embodiment, includes a processor. The system also in...