ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,930, issued on June 23, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Memory allocator" was invented by Yaron Alpert (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Avi Sammy Berkovich (Herzliya, Israel) and Yoav Ben Yehezkel (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus includes a data store and a controller. The is communicatively coupled to the data store. The controller is configured to receive a request to allocate a memory cluster, the request indicating a requested memory attribute other than a requested size of the memory cluster. The controller is also configured to, responsive to receipt of the request, determi...