US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 28 for "Limiting a number of illegitimate interrupts from switching a central processing unit to a system management mode" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,121, issued on July 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Limiting a number of illegitimate interrupts from switching a central processing unit to a system management mode" was invented by Mallik Bulusu (Bellevue, Wash.), Muhammad A. Ahmed (Seattle), Ganesh Kumar A (Hyderabad, India), Kiran Bangalore Sathyanarayana (Bangalore, India) and Pingfan Song (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for limiting the rate at which system management interrupts can suspend normal execution of a central processing unit (CPU) by switching the operating mode of the CPU from one ...