On December 8, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s latest trademark application for Grand Central under application 77626943. This is Apple’s second trademark filing associated with Mac OS X Snow Leopard filed in the last month. Apple has filed “Grand Central” under the sole International Classification 009 covering computer operating systems/software. Apple’s forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard is set to deliver unrivaled support for multi-core processors with a new technology code-named “Grand Central.”

Grand Central makes it easier for developers to create programs that will take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. More cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance increases in today’s processors. Grand Central takes full advantage by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizes it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Apple’s Open Computing Language (OpenCL) was designed to take advantage of Grand Central. OpenCL lets any application tap into the vast gigaflops of GPU computing power previously available only to graphics applications.

Apple asserts a claim of priority based on Trinidad and Tobago application number 39888, filed 06/04/2008.

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Written and researched by Jack Purcher.