ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,656, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Dynamic decomposition and thread allocation" was invented by Skyler Arron Windh (McKinney, Texas), Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas) and Patrick Estep (Rowlett, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques for thread scheduling control and memory splitting in a processor are described herein. An apparatus includes a hardware interface configured to receive a first request to execute a first thread, the first request including an indication of a workload; and processing circuitry configured to: determine the workload to produce a metric based at...