US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 4 for "Determining a memory contention state of a node" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,733, issued on March 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining a memory contention state of a node" was invented by Felipe Knop (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), John Lewars (New Paltz, N.Y.), Olaf Weiser (Boeblingen, Germany) and Lyle Gayne (Saugerties, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes causing a memory assessment thread to perform a first predetermined node memory contention state determination sequence for a predetermined first node. The first predetermined node memory contention state determination sequence includes recording a ...