ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,437, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Informed optimization of thread group scheduling" was invented by Jaeyoo Jung (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Peter Linden (Boston), Robert Lucey (Whitechurch, Ireland) and Wednesday Wolf (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Individual processors of a storage system are analyzed to determine which thread types are most important for servicing a run workload, where importance is measured by number of CPU cycles used. Permutations of differentiated access to CPU cycles are calculated, where the most important thread types are provided with greater access to ...