US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on July 1 for "Memory allocation based on lifespan" (Norwegian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,577, issued on July 1, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Memory allocation based on lifespan" was invented by Jani Knaappila (Evitskog, Finland) and Marius Grannaes (Hosle, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory is allocated according to lifespan. The memory manager allocates requests for short-term memory to one portion of memory and allocates requests for long-term memory to another portion of the memory. The memory manager looks for free space for requests for long-term memory starting at a first location in the memory and the memory manager looks for free space beginning at a second location in the ...