US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Garbage collection lightweight dynamic tracing and analysis" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,922, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Garbage collection lightweight dynamic tracing and analysis" was invented by Mukund Raghav Sharma (San Diego), Manish Godse (Sammamish, Wash.), Maoni Zhang Stephens (Kirkland, Wash.), Mark Ronald Plesko (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ying Hung Au (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments perform lightweight monitoring for garbage collection (GC) flow events, then perform focused tracing after detecting a performance problem signal. The tracing is focused by constraints which are specified in a designation data structure, including...