ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,761, issued on May 27, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"System and method for memory allocation and management in non-uniform memory access architecture computing environments" was invented by Tongping Liu (Belchertown, Mass.), Hanmei Yang (Amherst, Mass.) and Xin Zhao (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for memory allocation and management in non-uniform memory access ("NUMA") architecture computing environments is disclosed. The system and method contemplates both hardware heterogeneity and allocation/deallocation attributes, with fine-grained memory management. NUMAl...