US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 9 for "Optimizing memory usage in physical memory" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,412, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing memory usage in physical memory" was invented by Vijay Sundaresan (North York, Canada), Marius Pirvu (Toronto) and Gita Koblents (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for optimizing memory usage. A processor set classifies data stored in virtual memory into hot data and cold data based on frequency of access for the data stored in the virtual memory. The processor set segregates the hot data and the cold data into different memory regions in the virtual memory to generate hot memory regions comprisin...