ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,474, issued on March 31, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Batch scheduling function calls of a transactional application programming interface (API) protocol" was invented by Joseph Grecco (Saddle Brook, N.J.), Mukesh Gangadhar Bhavani Venkatesan (Bangalore, India) and Hariharan M (Palakkad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are generally directed to improving performance of a transactional API protocol by batch scheduling data dependent functions. In an example, a prescribed sequence of function calls associated with a transactional application programming interface (API) is receiv...