ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,169, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Dynamically allocating memory pool subinstances" was invented by Neil Horman (Raleigh, N.C.) and Andrew Gospodarek (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system can include memory management capabilities. In one embodiment, the system receives a request to allocate a portion of memory, where the request to allocate the portion of memory comprises a memory pool instance; determines a memory pool subinstance from which to allocate the portion of memory based on the memory pool instance; and obtains the portion of memory from the determined memor...