ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,121, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Memory pool management" was invented by Francois Dugast (Karlsruhe, Germany), Florent Pirou (Paris), Sujoy Sen (Beaverton, Ore.), Lidia Warnes (Roseville, Calif.), Thomas E. Willis (Redwood City, Calif.) and Durgesh Srivastava (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to providing an interface to an operating system (OS) to create different memory pool classes to allocate to one or more processes and allocate a memory pool class with a process of the one or more processes. In some examples, a memory pool class of the...