ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,830, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Dynamic CPU core sharing" was invented by Ningdong Li (Acton, Mass.), Robert Lucey (Whitechurch, Ireland), James McGillis (Franklin, Mass.), Peng Yin (Southborough, Mass.) and Rong Yu (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Emulation modules running on a single-board compute node have allocations of cores of a multi-core processor. The emulation modules are configured to donate underutilized cores or available CPU cycle units to a shared pool that can be used by other emulation modules running on the board. Emulation modules that require additio...