ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,700, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kove IP LLC (Chicago).

"External memory as an extension to local primary memory" was invented by Timothy A. Stabrawa (Lombard, Ill.), Zachary A. Cornelius (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), John Overton (Chicago), Andrew S. Poling (Lombard, Ill.) and Jesse Taylor (Glenside, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for allocating memory. An example method includes: allocating, for an application logic, a region of external primary memory included in a memory appliance; selecting, by a client device in response to a first request to reclaim a first portion of local primary memory i...