US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on April 14 for "Software interrupt management system for symmetric multiprocessing devices" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,338, issued on April 14, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Software interrupt management system for symmetric multiprocessing devices" was invented by Louis-Philippe Majeau (Ste-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Canada) and Jean Francois Deschenes (Ste-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of handling interrupts in a symmetric multiprocessing system is disclosed. The symmetric multiprocessing system may comprise a plurality of ARM processors, such as Cortex-M processors. All of the possible interrupt sources are routed to all of the processing units. A message handling unit (MHU) is ...