ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,467, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for halting processing cores in a multicore system" was invented by Mallikarjun Shivappa Bidari (Bengaluru, South Korea), Divakar Kulkarni (Bengaluru, India), Raju Siddappa Udava (Bengaluru, India), Shashank Vimal (Bengaluru, India), Tushar Vrind (Bengaluru, India), Venkata Raju Indukuri (Bengaluru, India), Harish Kumar Veerappanchatram Sundaramurthy (Bengaluru, India) and Rajiv Hasija (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicore computing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. Th...