ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,200, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Scalable interrupts" was invented by Jeffrey E. Gonion (Campbell, Calif.), Charles E. Tucker (Campbell, Calif.), Tal Kuzi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Richard F. Russo (San Jose, Calif.), Mridul Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher M. Tsay (Austin, Texas), Gideon N. Levinsky (Cedar Park, Texas), Shih-Chieh Wen (San Jose, Calif.) and Lior Zimet (Kerem Maharal, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interrupt delivery mechanism for a system includes and interrupt controller and a plurality of cluster interrupt controllers coupled to respective pluralities of processor...