US Patent Issued to Unity IPR on April 1 for "Determining a job group status based on a relationship between a generation counter value and a ticket value for scheduling the job group for execution" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,848, issued on April 1, was assigned to Unity IPR ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Determining a job group status based on a relationship between a generation counter value and a ticket value for scheduling the job group for execution" was invented by Benoit Sevigny (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A job scheduler system includes one or more hardware processors, a memory including a job group queue stored in the memory, and a job scheduler engine configured to create a first job group in the job group queue, the first job group includes a generation counter having an initial value, receive a first request to steal the firs...