US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Dec. 23 for "Garbage collection method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,037, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Garbage collection method and apparatus" was invented by Dong-Wook Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Gae-Il An (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hong-Il Ju (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a garbage collection method and apparatus. The garbage collection method includes when an area dynamically allocated through a malloc function or a new operator of a standard C library is deallocated through a free function or a delete operator, inserting the deallocated area into a quarantine list, rec...