US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 22 for "Synchronous microthreading" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,339, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Synchronous microthreading" was invented by David B. Sheffield (Portland, Ore.), Erich Boleyn (Portland, Ore.), Jonathan Pearce (Portland, Ore.), Sofia Pediaditaki (Portland, Ore.), Jeffrey Cook (Portland, Ore.), Shreesha Srinath (Portland, Ore.), Ching-Kai Liang (Beaverton, Ore.) and Tyler Sondag (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled t...