US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 19 for "Self-scheduling threads in a processor based on a threshold associated with pipeline stages" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,428, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Self-scheduling threads in a processor based on a threshold associated with pipeline stages" was invented by Tony Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable threads to self-schedule in a processor, when it is determined that an instruction will not complete within a threshold prior to insertion into a pipeline of the processor, a thread identifier (ID) can be passed with the instruction. Here, the thread ID corresponds to a thread of the instruction. When a response to completion of the instruction is received that includes the thread I...