ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,329, issued on April 15, was assigned to LipingData Corp. (Anaheim, Calif.).
"Method and system for tracking memory usage" was invented by Liping Dai (Anaheim, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system track memory allocation and release activities to detect memory leak, buffer overflow, and release type mismatch errors in a computing system. The memory tracker computes the necessary size of the allocated memory block and calls operating system provided functions to allocate and release raw memory blocks. Raw memory blocks are formatted into allocated memory blocks. An indexed data structure stores the allocated memory...