ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,901, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method with register sharing" was invented by Won Woo Ro (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghyun Jin (Seoul, South Korea), Jonghyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunwuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method with register sharing are provided. In one general aspect, a method of operating a processing apparatus includes determining whether there is shared data that is used by each of threads in a plurality of thre...