US Patent Issued to National Chung Cheng University on Sept. 1 for "Method for managing mutual exclusion access to a critical section in a multi-core processor" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,652, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to National Chung Cheng University (Chia-Yi, Taiwan).

"Method for managing mutual exclusion access to a critical section in a multi-core processor" was invented by Shi-Wu Lo (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for managing mutual exclusion access to a critical section in a multi-core processor, the multi-core processor includes cores. The step of managing the cores to access a critical section by the multi-core processor includes only one of the cores is allowed to access the critical section at given time and the next thread on the core that is allowed to access the cr...