G06F 12/0269
Incremental or concurrent garbage collection
Official title: {Incremental or concurrent garbage collection, e.g. in real-time systems (G06F12/0261 takes precedence)}
G06F12/0269 (Incremental or concurrent garbage collection) appears on 621 US grants and 519 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Garbage collection using detail card tables6 Oct 2026US 12,754,838 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Memory usage in managed runtime applications21 Jul 2026US 12,688,122 B2Intel Corporation
- Controller and memory system controlling garbage collection operation at power-on, and method of operating the controller and memory system2 Jun 2026US 12,645,586 B2SK hynix Inc.
- Techniques for concurrent multi-generation garbage collection24 Feb 2026US 12,561,239 B1Oracle International Corporation
- Loading elements in a computing environment23 Dec 2025US 12,505,038 B1Oracle International Corporation
- Garbage Collection Using Detail Card Tables3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259826 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Method and device for managing host area27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252487 A1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Techniques For Deterministically Terminating A Phase Of Concurrent Operations16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203213 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Monotonic State Machine for Tracking Concurrent Operations16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203214 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Resource optimizer for customer data platform2 Apr 2026US 2026/0093664 A1Oracle International Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Specializing write-barriers for objects in a garbage collected heap553US 7,089,272 B1Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2006
- Efficient write-watch mechanism useful for garbage collection in a computer system343US 7,065,617 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2006
- Method for efficient soft real-time execution of portable byte code computer programs283US 6,081,665 ANewmonics Inc. · 2000
- Real time, concurrent garbage collection system and method279US 5,088,036 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1992
- System and hardware module for incremental real time garbage collection and memory management237US 5,560,003 AIowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. · 1996