US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 7 for "Universal pointers for data exchange in a computer system having independent processors" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,768, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Universal pointers for data exchange in a computer system having independent processors" was invented by Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus to facilitate data exchange via pointers. For example, in a computing system having a first processor and a second processor that is separate and independent from the first processor, the first processor can run a program configured to use a pointer identifying a virtual memory address having an ID of an object and an offset within the object. The first processor...