ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,537, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Single-producer-multiple consumers synchronization and multicast data transfer" was invented by Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York City, N.Y.), Scot Rider (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.), Swagath Venkataramani (White Plains, N.Y.), Kailash Gopalakrishnan (New York City, N.Y.), Sunil K Shukla (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Brian William Curran (Saugerties, N.Y.) and Martin A Lutz (Peekskill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for providing single-producer-multiple consumers synchronization and multicast data transfer by a processor are disclosed. M...