ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,100, issued on June 24, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Memory allocation and reallocation for program instructions and data using intermediate processor" was invented by Arash Farhoodfar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Whay Lee (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes memory, a controller and a processor. The controller receives program instructions to program the controller to perform function, and handle data as a result of performing the function. The processor: performs an initial configuration of a map to proportion the memory including allocating first and second portions of the memory for ...