US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on March 3 for "Scheduling of duplicate threads" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,612, issued on March 3, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Scheduling of duplicate threads" was invented by Revanth Kamaraj (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Vamshi Kadiyala (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Jack Andrew (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Ozgur Ozkurt (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety thread scheduler configured to schedule a check thread for a critical thread being run on one of a plurality of execution units, the check thread being a duplicate of the critical thread, wherein the safety thread scheduler is configured to schedule the check thr...