US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Low latency and highly programmable interrupt controller unit" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,906, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low latency and highly programmable interrupt controller unit" was invented by Scott N. Cline (Portland, Ore.), Ivan B. Ganev (Portland, Ore.), Robert S. Pawlowski (Beaverton, Ore.), Jason Howard (Portland, Ore.) and Joshua B. Fryman (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graph processing core includes a plurality of processing pipelines and an interrupt controller unit. Each processing pipeline executes one or more threads and includes, for each thread, a register indicating a currently executing program counter vector and another register indicat...