ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,939, issued on March 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IIT MADRAS) (Chennai, India).

"Split-scalarization of thread-local objects in optimized object code" was invented by Vijay Sundaresan (North York, Canada), Daryl James Maier (Canada, Canada), Krishna Nandivada Venkata (Chennai, India) and Manas Thakur (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to split-scalarization of thread-local objects in optimized object code. A computer-implemented method includes receiving source code including a programmed method ...