US Patent Issued to Netflix on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for predicting and mitigating out of memory kills" (California, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,544, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predicting and mitigating out of memory kills" was invented by Andrew David Eichacker (Overland Park, Kan.), Anselm Lau (San Francisco), Aryan Mehra (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jason Nicholas Munning (Oakland, Calif.), Farnaz Karimdady Sharifabad (Fremont, Calif.), Prasanna Vijayanathan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chaina Wade (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes identifying static information associated with a computing device that is running a media playback application. The method also include...