ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,067, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware queue scheduling for multi-core computing environments" was invented by Niall McDonnell (Limerick, Ireland), Gage Eads (Austin, Texas), Mrittika Ganguli (Tempe, Ariz.), Chetan Hiremath (Portland, Ore.), John Mangan (Shannon, Ireland), Stephen Palermo (Chandler, Ariz.), Bruce Richardson (Shannon, Ireland), Edwin Verplanke (Chandler, Ariz.), Praveen Mosur (Gilbert, Ariz.), Bradley Chaddick (Portland, Ore.), Abhishek Khade (Chandler, Ariz.), Abhirupa Layek (Chandler, Ariz.), Sarita Maini (Tempe, Ariz.), Rahul Shah (Chandler, Ariz.), Shrikant Shah (Chandler, Ariz.), William Burroughs (Macungie, Pa.) an...