ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,162, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"User-level interprocessor interrupts" was invented by Gilbert Neiger (Portland, Ore.), Asit Mallick (Saratoga, Calif.), Rajesh Sankaran (Portland, Ore.), Hisham Shafi (Akko, Israel), Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas), Vivekananthan Sanjeepan (Portland, Ore.) and Jason Brandt (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processors, methods, and systems for user-level interprocessor interrupts are described. In an embodiment, a processing system includes a memory and a processing core. The memory is to store an interrupt control data structure associated wi...