ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,972,010, issued on April 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp..

"Securely connecting isolated managed heaps" was invented by Matthias Neugschwandtner (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria), Christian Humer (Zurich) and Jakub Chaloupka (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include generating, by a source isolate, an external object reference, passing, by the source isolate, the external object reference to a target isolate, storing, by the source isolate and in an exported reference table, an entry that maps the external object reference to an object stored in a heap of the source isolate, performing, by the target i...