US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Memory management using build identifications" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,173, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Memory management using build identifications" was invented by Christopher John Poole (Hampshire, Great Britain) and Ashley Robertson (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, a method, and computer program product are provided that track build identifications of a project to determine when their associated files should be deallocated by a garbage collection system. The method includes receiving, by a continuous integration server, a payload from a source control management (SCM) system. The method also includes ...