ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,259, issued on May 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Synchronous microthreading" was invented by Shreesha Srinath (Portland, Ore.), Jonathan Pearce (Portland, Ore.), David B. Sheffield (Portland, Ore.), Ching-Kai Liang (Beaverton, Ore.) and Jeffrey Cook (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using soft-barrier hints are described. An example includes a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to a logical processor to execute a plurality of microthreads, with each microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode, whe...