US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 23 for "Lock-free work-stealing thread scheduler" (Colorado, Idaho, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,149, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Lock-free work-stealing thread scheduler" was invented by Matthew Gates (Houston), Joel E. Lilienkamp (Fort Collins, Colo.), Alex Veprinsky (San Jose, Calif.) and Susan Agten (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for lock-free thread scheduling. Threads may be placed in a ring buffer shared by all computer processing units (CPUs), e.g., in a node. A thread assigned to a CPU may be placed in the CPU's local run queue. However, when a CPU's local run queue is cleared, that CPU checks the shared r...