ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,593, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Synchronizing scheduling tasks with atomic ALU" was invented by Ollie Mower (Kings Langley, Great Britain) and Yoong-Chert Foo (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synchronizing a group of scheduled tasks within a parallel processing unit into a known state is described. The method uses a synchronization instruction in a scheduled task which triggers, in response to decoding of the instruction, an instruction decoder to place the scheduled task into a non-active state and forward the decoded synchronization instruction...