US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Locking in multi-node environments" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,822, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Locking in multi-node environments" was invented by Jason Raff (Bedford, N.H.), Shari Vietry (Merrimack, N.H.) and Ben Beauregard (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to sharing a page of memory among a first processing node and a second processing node. The technique includes provisioning the first processing node with a first queue and the second processing node with a second queue. The technique further includes configuring the first processing node to enqueue, within the first queue, local lock requests to assign lock o...