ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,174, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for memory management in big data applications" was invented by N. Lee Rhodes (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments describe techniques for allocating memory to functions processing big data. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising allocating a first memory space to a function, the memory space comprising an initial amount of memory for the function; declaring the first memory space as the current memory space; processing data using the function, the processing writing data to the current memor...