ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,269, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Stack memory allocation control based on monitored activities" was invented by Barak Cherches (Ramat Ha'Kovesh, Israel), Shaul Barner (Shoham, Israel) and Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; and a stack memory allocation controller coupled to the processor and the memory. The stack memory allocation controller has: a stack use manager configured to monitor activities of the processor. The stack memory allocation controller also has a virtual memory tran...