G06F 12/02
Addressing or allocation
Official title: Addressing or allocation; Relocation (program address sequencing G06F9/00; arrangements for selecting an address in a digital store G11C8/00)
G06F12/02 (Addressing or allocation) appears on 53,654 US grants and 51,305 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 51,305
- Assignees
- 4,194
- Inventors
- 54,218
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 2417 | 2270 |
| 2025 | 2229 | 2096 |
| 2026 | 1359 | 1586 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 12/08In hierarchically structured memory systems36,538
- G06F 12/0223User address space allocation19,974
- G06F 12/06Addressing a physical block of locations4,982
- G06F 12/0207With multidimensional access961
- G06F 12/0215With look ahead addressing means786
- G06F 12/04Addressing variable-length words or parts of words630
Recent patents
- Method and system for supporting memory functions during low power modes of a portable computing device (PCD)6 Oct 2026US 12,754,599 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Method of registering and executing programmable atomic unit resources within a multi-process system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,759 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Padding memory by programming user data in parallel6 Oct 2026US 12,754,832 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Optimized metadata prediction6 Oct 2026US 12,754,833 B1Dell Products L. P.
- Data storage accessible by a host using different communication protocols based on the mating orientation of a reversible connector6 Oct 2026US 12,754,834 B2SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Distributed memory for inference operations8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310348 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Managing allocation of sub-blocks in a memory sub-system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310359 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Request Processing Method, Apparatus, and System8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310380 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Inserting null vectors into a stream of vectors8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310466 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Handling parity data during data folding in a memory device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310550 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Digital data storage system with improved data migration1,757US 5,276,867 AEpoch Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Pipelined high speed data transfer mechanism1,225US 6,418,478 B1Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2002
- Hierarchical backup and retrieval system1,117US 7,395,282 B1Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008
- Coherence controls for store-multiple shared data coordinated by cache directory entries in a shared electronic storage1,109US 5,544,345 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Data transmission over the internet using a cache memory file system1,027US 5,950,205 ACisco Technology, Inc. · 1999