US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 22 for "Thread replay to preserve state in a barrel processor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,800, issued on April 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Thread replay to preserve state in a barrel processor" was invented by Chris Baronne (Allen, Texas), Dean E. Walker (Allen, Texas) and John Amelio (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques for thread replay to preserve state in a barrel processor are described herein. An apparatus includes a barrel processor, which includes a temporary memory; and a thread scheduling circuitry; wherein the barrel processor is configured to perform operations through use of the thread scheduling circuitry, the operations including those to: schedu...