US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 5 for "Processor interrupt expansion feature" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,956, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processor interrupt expansion feature" was invented by Gilbert Neiger (Portland, Ore.) and Rajesh Sankaran (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise a processor with one or more cores and circuitry coupled to the one or more cores, the circuitry to control one or more interrupts based on an interrupt expansion data structure, and report information derived from the interrupt expansion data structure to a software interrupt handler. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed."

The patent was filed on Nov...