US Patent Issued to Kove IP on June 16 for "Coordinated allocation of external memory" (Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,966, issued on June 16, was assigned to Kove IP LLC (Chicago).

"Coordinated allocation of external memory" was invented by Timothy A. Stabrawa (Lombard, Ill.), Zachary A. Cornelius (Chicago), John Overton (Chicago), Andrew S. Poling (Lombard, Ill.) and Jesse I. Taylor (Glenside, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and executable instructions are provided for allocating external memory. A request to allocate a portion of memory may be received at a first device. A memory appliance and the first client device are connected by a network. A region of memory of the memory appliance may be allocated as external memory prio...