US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Cross-platform mutual exclusion" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,164, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cross-platform mutual exclusion" was invented by Garret Buban (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Madhav Himanshubhai Pandya (Redmond, Wash.) and David Marion Hattaway (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for generating, from platform-agnostic source code, platform-specific code to efficiently implement mutual exclusion. Platform-agnostic source code includes a first block of code associated with a first implementation-agnostic context that is structured to cause instanc...