US Patent Issued to Next Silicon on July 14 for "Accelerated memory allocation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,757, issued on July 14, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).

"Accelerated memory allocation" was invented by Yuval Asher Deutsher (Givatayim, Israel) and Dan Shechter (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a device for allocation of memory configured for: in response to a request for allocation of a region of a pool of a memory by a process being executed by a processor, a memory allocator is configured to perform in a single atomic operation: read a data structure indicating a state of allocation of the pool, check the data structure for a condition, update the data structure according to...