US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 4 for "Transitioning between thread-confined memory segment views and shared memory segment views" (Canadian, Dutch, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,395, issued on March 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Transitioning between thread-confined memory segment views and shared memory segment views" was invented by Maurizio Cimadamore (Donabate, Ireland), James Malcolm Laskey (Lunenburg, Canada) and Jorn Bender Vernee (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for transitioning between memory segment views include: instantiating a first memory segment view that confines access to a memory segment to a first thread; receiving a request to transition ownership of the memory segment to a second thread; responsive to receiving the...