ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,572, issued on April 7, was assigned to DSP Concepts Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Audio multithreaded profiling" was invented by Madhan Mohan Gundluru (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of thread-level cycle processing includes determining a clock value at the start of execution of a first thread, receiving preemption of the first thread by a second thread; determining a clock value at the start and end of execution of the second thread, determining a duration of the second thread by subtracting the clock value at the start of execution of the second thread from the clock value at the end of execution of the sec...