ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,806, issued on June 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Memory management for multiple process instances" was invented by Manoj Syamala (Issaquah, Wash.), Vivek Narasayya (Redmond, Wash.), Junfeng Dong (Sammamish, Wash.), Ajay Kalhan (Redmond, Wash.), Shize Xu (Redmond, Wash.), Changsong Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Pankaj Arora (Sammamish, Wash.), Jiaqi Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), John M. Oslake (Seattle) and Arnd Christian Konig (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent memory brokering for multiple process instances, such as relational databases (e.g., SQL servers), reclaims memory based...