US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on July 15 for "Deadlock prevention utilizing distributed resource reservations" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,825, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deadlock prevention utilizing distributed resource reservations" was invented by Alexander Kalinin (Watertown, Mass.), Thao Nguyen Pham (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yuanzhe Bei (Marblehead, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In multi-threaded or multi-processor computing systems, a deadlock may occur when two or more processes or threads are unable to proceed because they are each waiting for a resource that the other holds. As a result, progress is halted because conflicting entities are stuck in a circular dependency, and none can release the resources they...