US Patent Issued to Naxin Sun on Aug. 25 for "Stacking stack technique for operating system kernels to support prioritized and preemptible tasklets" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,639, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Naxin Sun (Mass.).

"Stacking stack technique for operating system kernels to support prioritized and preemptible tasklets" was invented by Eric Sun (Acton, Mass.) and Naxin Sun (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is improved resource utilization for multithreading. A first run-time stack is constructed for a first tasklet by allocating a contiguous block of memory between starting and ending memory addresses in a stack pool. The first tasklet executes using a first portion of the contiguous block of memory, up to an intermediate memory address, prior to being preempted by a s...