ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,619, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Ceremorphic Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for opportunistic thread-switching for faster task-switching for handling interrupts and subroutines" was invented by Heonchul Park (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes (a) circuitry for managing at least (1) a first thread and (2) a second thread, (b) circuitry for causing the first thread to initiate or receive a priority task, (c) circuitry for determining a status of the second thread, (c) circuitry for, responsive to the second thread having an idle status, copying at least some state associ...