ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,531, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Improving processor utilization" was invented by Sayantan Sur (Cary, N.C.), Shahaf Shuler (Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot, Israel), Doron Haim (Herzliya, Israel), Netanel Moshe Gonen (Kokhav Yair, Israel) and Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein include managing scheduling of interrupts by receiving a data packet comprising an indication of an interrupt to be delivered, determining an availability status of a processing thread, and managing an interrupt status indicator in response to det...