US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Sharing global variables between addressing mode programs" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,701, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sharing global variables between addressing mode programs" was invented by Xiao Yan Tang (Beijing), Naijie Li (Beijing), Jing Lu (Beijing), Ming Ran Liu (Beijing), Yuan Zhai (Beijing) and Kershaw S. Mehta (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Global variables are shared between programs associated with different addressing modes. A first program of an application records an allocated address to a global variable in a global variable sharing area (GVSA). The first program is associated with a first addressing mode. The first progr...