US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 9 for "Global heap size coordination of garbage collected workloads" (Swiss, Austrian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,921, issued on June 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Global heap size coordination of garbage collected workloads" was invented by Arash Kazemi Koohbanani (Zurich), Alexander Ulrich (Freiburg, Germany), Christian Haeubl (Linz, Austria), Harshad Kasture (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Aleksei Kashuba (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for dynamically modifying maximum heap sizes of local memory heaps. A plurality of applications execute that each have a corresponding local garbage collector in a plurality of local garbage collectors. A global garbage collection manager execute...