ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,991, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Teradata US Inc. (San Diego).

"Workload memory management to achieve service level goals in a highly concurrent database system executing in a cloud and/or on-prem systems" was invented by Douglas P. Brown (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Venu Gopal Joshi (El Segundo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management computer system arranges a set of consumers of a computer memory resource in an inverted tree hierarchy. The memory management computer system allocates the computer memory resource among the scheduling entities. Each of the scheduling entities allocates the computer memory re...