ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,820, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Selecting garbage collection processes" was invented by Erik Osterlund (Vasterhaninge, Sweden), Axel Boldt-Christmas (Stockholm) and Stefan Mats Rikard Karlsson (Nacka, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system executes a first virtual thread, including storing a first shared object in a first private memory region, storing a pointer in a shared memory region, and determining that the pointer includes a reference to a location of the first shared object in the first private memory region. Responsive to determining that the pointer inclu...