ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,782, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Apparatus and method for configuring sets of interrupts" was invented by Yogesh Deshpande (Belgaum, India) and Pandurang V. Deshpande (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are described for efficiently processing and reassigning interrupts. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a plurality of cores; and an interrupt controller to group interrupts into a plurality of interrupt domains, each interrupt domain to have a set of one or more interrupts assigned thereto and to map the interrupts in the set to one o...