ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,249, issued on April 14.

"Hardware resource allocation system for allocating resources to threads" was invented by Mark D. Earl (Oviedo, Fla.), Dimitri Tan (Austin, Texas), Christopher L. Spencer (Chuluota, Fla.), Jeffrey T. Brady (Orlando, Fla.), Ralph C. Taylor (Orlando, Fla.) and Terence M. Potter (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a resource allocation management circuit may allocate a plurality of different types of hardware resources (e.g., different types of registers) to a plurality of threads. The different types of hardware resources may correspond to a plurality of hardware resource allo...