US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 24 for "Ambient cooperative cancellation with green threads" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,497, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Ambient cooperative cancellation with green threads" was invented by Stephen Harris Toub (Winchester, Mass.) and David Charles Wrighton (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may queue a thread for execution by a thread pool, including configuring an ambient context with a cancellation token. Based on a call of a synchronous method by the thread, the device may determine that the thread uses a green threads model and identify the cancellation token from the ambient context. Based on the thread using the green threads model...