US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 2 for "Hybrid locking/queuing operations for mutual exclusion of work units" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,508, issued on June 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hybrid locking/queuing operations for mutual exclusion of work units" was invented by Garret Buban (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus includes processing units that execute threads using a hybrid locking/queuing operation for efficient processing of work units with mutual exclusion of the work units. Under the hybrid locking/queuing operation, a processing unit determines that a first thread is to process a first work unit, in which the first work unit is under protection of a hybrid exclusion...