ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,465, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Red Shores, Calif.).

"Hardware-accelerated coroutines for linked data structures" was invented by Kangnyeon Kim (Dublin, Calif.), Aida Vosoughi (Pittsburgh) and Garret F. Swart (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer assigns many threads to a hardware pipeline that contains a sequence of hardware stages that include a computing stage, a suspending stage, and a resuming stage. Each cycle of the hardware pipeline can concurrently execute a respective distinct stage of the sequence of hardware stages for a respective distinct thread. A read of rando...