US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Garbage collection in constrained local environments" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,313, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Garbage collection in constrained local environments" was invented by Maoni Zhang Stephens (Kirkland, Wash.) and Brendan Davis Burns (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments control garbage collection priority based on both a local memory pressure and a global memory pressure. The local pressure represents volatile memory usage in a container or other isolation unit residing on a machine, and the global pressure represents volatile memory usage in the machine overall. The machine is a device or a virtual machine containing one o...