ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,810, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Iterative workload processing having a mandatory processing task and a preferred processing task" was invented by Ali Ok (Istanbul, Argentina) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford City, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Iterative workload processing having a mandatory processing task and a preferred processing task. A processor device iteratively performs a processing workload that comprises a mandatory processing task and a preferred processing task. The mandatory processing task includes accessing a plurality of input messages that have not yet been processed, and th...