US Patent Issued to Intel on March 17 for "Forward progress guarantee using single-level synchronization at individual thread granularity" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,012, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Forward progress guarantee using single-level synchronization at individual thread granularity" was invented by Chunhui Mei (San Diego), James Valerio (North Plains, Ore.), Supratim Pal (Folsom, Calif.), Guei-Yuan Lueh (San Jose, Calif.) and Hong Jiang (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate facilitating forward progress guarantee using single-level synchronization at individual thread granularity is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising a barrier synchronization hardware circuitry to assign a set of g...