US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for preventing task-signal deadlock due to contention for mutex in RTOS" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,148, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for preventing task-signal deadlock due to contention for mutex in RTOS" was invented by Raju Udava Siddappa (Bangalore, India), Chandan Kumar (Bangalore, India), Sudharshan Rao B (Bangalore, India), Tushar Vrind (Bangalore, India) and Venkata Raju Indukuri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing a task-signal deadlock arising due to contention for a mutex in a real-time operating system (RTOS) includes detecting, by a processing unit, a signal notification sent to a task for executio...