US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Oct. 14 for "Dynamic memory reservations for optimized and efficient RAM layout" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,519, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Dynamic memory reservations for optimized and efficient RAM layout" was invented by Jean Francois Deschenes (Ste-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Canada) and Cedric Migliorini (Roxboro, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for allocating memory is disclosed. The memory is made up of a plurality of banks, wherein the power to each is independently controlled. Two different types of requests are disclosed. The first type is used to allocate a memory block and also includes an indication of the lifespan of the requested memory block. The lifespan ...