ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,438, issued on April 15, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Migration between CPU cores" was invented by Kent Prosch (Boulder, Colo.), Matthew Weber (Wichita, Kan.), Arindam Banerjee (Boulder, Colo.) and Ben McDavitt (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory machine-readable media, and computing devices for transitioning tasks and interrupt service routines are provided. An example method includes processing, by a plurality of processor cores of a storage controller, tasks and interrupt service routines. A performance statistic is determined corresponding to the plurality of processor cores. B...