G06F 12/0276
Generational garbage collection
Official title: {Generational garbage collection}
G06F12/0276 (Generational garbage collection) appears on 259 US grants and 193 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 259
- Published applications
- 193
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 340
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 7 | 2 |
| 2002 | 10 | 10 |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 |
| 2004 | 9 | 35 |
| 2005 | 11 | 4 |
| 2006 | 26 | 4 |
| 2007 | 12 | 5 |
| 2008 | 7 | 9 |
| 2009 | 11 | 8 |
| 2010 | 12 | 3 |
| 2011 | 6 | 6 |
| 2012 | 5 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 | 7 |
| 2014 | 8 | 7 |
| 2015 | 6 | 5 |
| 2016 | 10 | 10 |
| 2017 | 9 | 10 |
| 2018 | 10 | 11 |
| 2019 | 12 | 8 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9 |
| 2022 | 10 | 7 |
| 2023 | 10 | 3 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Garbage collection using detail card tables6 Oct 2026US 12,754,838 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Techniques for concurrent multi-generation garbage collection24 Feb 2026US 12,561,239 B1Oracle International Corporation
- Concurrent lazy reference counting in an old garbage collection generation2 Dec 2025US 12,487,924 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Data retention (DR) warning system10 Dec 2024US 12,164,372 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Concurrent remembered set scanning19 Nov 2024US 12,147,336 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- 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
- Resource optimizer for customer data platform2 Apr 2026US 2026/0093664 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Concurrent Lazy Reference Counting In An Old Garbage Collection Generation3 Jul 2025US 2025/0217285 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Using Machine Learning And Data Sampling To Optimize Data Reduction22 May 2025US 2025/0165172 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Specializing write-barriers for objects in a garbage collected heap553US 7,089,272 B1Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2006
- Method and apparatus for pre-allocation of system resources to facilitate garbage collection137US 6,446,257 B1Hewlett-Packard Company · 2002
- Method and apparatus for enhancing data storage efficiency131US 4,989,134 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1991
- Performing exact garbage collection using bitmaps that identify pointer values within objects117US 5,920,876 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1999
- Generation isolation system and method for garbage collection108US 6,098,089 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 2000