ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,989, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Memory defragmentation method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Xian He (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a memory defragmentation method performed by a computer device. The method includes: obtaining n idle blocks before a tail idle block in a memory of a graphic processing unit, the tail idle block located at a head of remaining unallocated idle blocks in the memory, and n being a positive integer; obtaining tail non-idle blocks in the memory, the tail non-idle blocks comprising on...