US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 5 for "Managing temporal dependencies between sets of foreign resources" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,963, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Managing temporal dependencies between sets of foreign resources" was invented by Maurizio Cimadamore (Donabate, Ireland) and Paul David Sandoz (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing temporal dependencies between sets of foreign resources are disclosed, including: allocating, in a runtime environment, a segment of foreign memory to a first memory session, the runtime environment being configured to use a garbage collector to manage memory in a heap, and the foreign memory including off-heap memory that is not ...