ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,765, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Method and apparatus for dynamic CPU allocation based on feature usage profiles of shared global memory" was invented by John Creed (Innishannon, Ireland) and Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Feature usage profiles of shared global memory are monitored and the profiles are used to allocate computational resources (CPU cores) between thread groups. A global memory monitor is used to monitor global memory metadata to determine the amount of space currently being consumed by a particular feature or service, and dynamically adjusts the...