ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,140, issued on July 22, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for allocating memory addresses in resource-centric networks" was invented by Ji Wook Youn (Daejeon, South Korea), Jongtae Song (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyeong-Eun Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for allocating a memory address in a resource-centric network are disclosed. The method of allocating a memory address may include receiving a request for a new service, determining whether the new service is able to be accommodated in a virtual memory th...