ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,673, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Page-in linking" was invented by Louis G. Gerbarg (Saratoga, Calif.), Joseph J. Bonasera (San Francisco), Davide Italiano (San Francisco), Nick Kledzik (Cupertino, Calif.), Peter Cooper (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohamadou A. Abdoulaye (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic linking system can be designed to dynamically resolve symbol references of pages associated with executable code as the pages are paged into virtual memory. The operating system can include a dynamic linker that uses metadata in the pages to determine symbol references that refe...