ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,251, issued on April 14, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device, control method for the same, and program" was invented by Kenta Kanda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exclusive control processing that is complex is eliminated on tasks executed in processors. A semiconductor device includes: a memory that stores task management information and running group management information; a first PE and a second PE; and a first shared resource and a second shared resource, and the first PE or the second PE is configured to refer to the running group management information and specify a group of task...