US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 23 for "Software visible and controllable lock-stepping with configurable logical processor granularities" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,000, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Software visible and controllable lock-stepping with configurable logical processor granularities" was invented by Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas), Jeff A. Huxel (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier (Austin, Texas), James D. Allen (Austin, Texas), Arvind Raman (Austin, Texas) and Krishnakumar Ganapathy (Bee Cave, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor is described. The processor includes model specific register space that is visible to software above a BIOS level. The model specific register space is to specify a granularity of a processing ent...