US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 21 for "Queueing asynchronous events for acceptance by threads executing in a barrel processor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,109, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Queueing asynchronous events for acceptance by threads executing in a barrel processor" was invented by Christopher Baronne (Allen, Texas) and Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques for asynchronous event message handing in a processor are described herein. A barrel multithreaded processor may include an asynchronous event handler to receive an indication of a thread create instruction from a parent thread, determine a return value size of return values from the indication of the thread create instruction, deter...