US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Processor core idle time determination for power and performance management" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,217, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Processor core idle time determination for power and performance management" was invented by Khoa A. To (Redmond, Wash.), Omar Cardona (Bellevue, Wash.), Dmitry Malloy (Redmond, Wash.), Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile (Redmond, Wash.) and Robert Tyler Retzlaff (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining and reporting actual utilization of a core of a central processing unit (CPU) of a host. Prior to implementation of aspects of the present disclosure, running a poll querying endpoints of a process for work ap...