G06F 8/441
Register allocation
Official title: {Register allocation; Assignment of physical memory space to logical memory space}
G06F8/441 (Register allocation) appears on 356 US grants and 325 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Register configuration technique using metrics18 Aug 2026US 12,710,990 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Space- and time-efficient enumerations7 Jul 2026US 12,675,259 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Concept for handling memory spills2 Jun 2026US 12,645,438 B2Intel Corporation
- Configurable access to a reconfigurable processor by a virtual function10 Mar 2026US 12,572,342 B2SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- Live range reduction to enhance register allocation of structured control flow programs24 Feb 2026US 12,561,119 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Control of storage aliasing via automatic application of artificial dependences during program compilation30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219849 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Resource requirement analysis and configuration selection for virtual functions in reconfigurable processors18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169712 A1SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- Resource allocation for virtual functions in multi-die reconfigurable processors18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169713 A1SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- Translating memory references18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169910 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Apparatus, system, and method of compiling code for a processor4 Jun 2026US 2026/0154052 A1Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for compiling a fine-grained array based source program onto a course-grained hardware212US 5,274,818 AThinking Machines Corporation · 1993
- Method and apparatus for compiling computer programs with interprocedural register allocation135US 5,555,417 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1996
- Register allocation and spilling via graph coloring102US 4,571,678 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1986
- Compilation using two-colored pebbling register allocation method such that spill code amount is invariant with basic block's textual ordering95US 4,782,444 AInternational Business Machine Corporation · 1988
- Compiler allocating a register to a data item used between a use and store of another data item previously allocated to the register92US 5,339,428 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1994