US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 18 for "Dynamic adaptive threading using idle time analysis" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,930, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic adaptive threading using idle time analysis" was invented by Salman Zia Rana (Ottawa) and Aleksandar Micic (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes initiating a first cycle of a process using a first number of threads that operate in parallel to collectively execute the process and collect performance data. The embodiment aggregates the performance data and computes a first idle duration based at least in part on the aggregated performance data. The embodiment projects a thread-count recommendation based at le...