US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 2 for "Prevention of resource starvation across stages and/or pipelines in computer environments" (American, Japanese, Kenyan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,859, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Prevention of resource starvation across stages and/or pipelines in computer environments" was invented by Alexei Karve (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.), Maroun Touma (Redding, Conn.), Sekou Lionel Remy (Nairobi, Kenya) and Kugamoorthy Gajananan (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes analyzing timing data for stages in a pipeline running in an edge system for detecting starvation of one or more of the stages in the pipeline. In response to detecting one or more...