US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 23 for "Mapping virtual processor cores to heterogeneous physical processor cores" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,013, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Mapping virtual processor cores to heterogeneous physical processor cores" was invented by Bruce J. Sherwin Jr. (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mapping virtual processor cores to heterogeneous physical processor cores. A device determines that a processor system has a heterogeneous set of processor cores, which include a first physical core with a first attribute and a second physical core with a second capability different from the first capability. The device associates a plurality of physical cores with a virtual machin...