ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,900, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient thread group scheduling" was invented by Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Altug Koker (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Kamal Sinha (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Balaji Vembu (Folsom, Calif.), Rajkishore Barik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eriko Nurvitadhi (Hillsboro, Ore.), Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries (Portland, Ore.), Tsung-Han Lin (Campbell, Calif.), Sanjeev Jahagirdar (Folsom, Calif.) and Vasanth Ranganathan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism is described for facilitating intelligent thread...