US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 15 for "Operating system process scheduler with location inertia" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,439, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Operating system process scheduler with location inertia" was invented by Matthew Fredette (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes include inertia bias values associated with migration paths and boundaries. When a process scheduler determines that a process is eligible for migration by comparing a process-related variable with a reference value, a new run domain is selected for the process and the inertia bias value specified by the process for the migration path is applied to the process-related variable to obtain a biased process-related ...