ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,750, issued on May 20, 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 selects a first garbage collection process from a group of garbage collection processes. When a first thread stores a first set of objects to a first private memory region that is exclusive of any shared objects accessible by one or more additional threads, the system executes a sweeping thread-local garbage collection process upo...