ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,355, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synchronization of system resources in a multi-socket data processing system" was invented by Karthik Shankar (San Jose, Calif.), Jaideep Dastidar (San Jose, Calif.), Ahmad R. Ansari (San Jose, Calif.) and Sagheer Ahmad (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronizing system resources of a multi-socket data processing system can include providing, from a primary System-on-Chip (SOC), a trigger event to a global synchronization circuit. The primary SOC is one of a plurality of SOCS and the trigger event is provided over a first sideband channel. In...