ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,325, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time CPU availability monitoring" was invented by Lakshman Naresh Coimbatore Annadorai (Newark, Calif.), Keun Young Park (Santa Clara, Calif.), Suresh Batchu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edward Dcruz (San Francisco), Felipe Leme (Belmont, Calif.), Steven Boray Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kweku Adams (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more processors of a computing device may determine, based at least in part on one or more processor statistics and one or more processor mode statistics, a processor availability of the one or more processors. The on...