US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 3 for "Processor execution aware interrupt routing for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,286, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processor execution aware interrupt routing for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Choudhary (Tonk, India), Maulik Shah (Hyderabad, India) and Philip Geoffrey Derrin (Beecroft, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interrupt routing method includes receiving an incoming interrupt. The method also includes assigning the incoming interrupt to a selected processor core of a set of processor cores based on a current processor running state of each processor core of the set of processor cores. The current processor running state of e...