ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,239, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Techniques for concurrent multi-generation garbage collection" was invented by Erik Osterlund (Vasterhaninge, Sweden), Axel Boldt-Christmas (Stockholm) and Stefan Mats Rikard Karlsson (Nacka, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for performing a garbage collection process that processes reference objects in multiple generations of a memory area while a program instance is concurrently manipulating runtime objects in the memory area. During one phase of concurrent operations, the system applies one rule set for proce...