ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,456, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Oxide Interactive Inc. (Timonium, Md.).
"Organizing tasks by a hierarchical task scheduler for execution in a multi-threaded processing system" was invented by Timothy James Kipp (Fallston, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scheduling tasks from a program executed by a multi-processor core system is disclosed. The method includes a scheduler that groups a plurality of tasks, each having an assigned priority, by priority in a task group. The task group is assembled with other task groups having identical priorities in a task group queue. A hierarchy of task group queues is establis...