ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,442, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hardware co-ordination of resource management in distributed systems" was invented by Piyush Patel (Cary, N.C.), Kevin Mann (Raleigh, N.C.), Theodore Haggis (Raleigh, N.C.), Malvika Singh (Austin, Texas) and Mit Kutchi (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to methods and apparatus for transferring ownership of common resources from a source entity, which owns a resource, to a destination entity, which will own the resource, in a distributed system. The method includes the source entity receiving a command to change ownership (the...