Spin off

a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series

For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.

Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent.