US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 28 for "Device, method and system to provide thread scheduling hints to a software process" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,612, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device, method and system to provide thread scheduling hints to a software process" was invented by Vadim Bassin (Raanana, Israel), Eliezer Weissmann (Haifa, Israel), Efraim Rotem (Haifa, Israel) and Julius Mandelblat (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for providing a thread scheduling hint to an operating system of a processor which comprises first cores and second cores. In an embodiment, the first cores are of a first type which corresponds to a first range of sizes, and the second cores are of a second type which corre...