ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,876, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Memory management system" was invented by Sean Lee (Kirkland, Wash.), Vinod Grover (Mercer Island, Wash.) and James Clarkson (Tewkesbury, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system manages the allocation of memory to an application program using a dependency tree. The dependency tree informs a memory manager of data inputs, data outputs, and intermediate values associated with execution of the application program. The memory manager allocates a single heap structure within a physical memory. Data associated with each node of the dependency ...