US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Leveraging an adaptive oscillator for fast frequency changes" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,170, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Leveraging an adaptive oscillator for fast frequency changes" was invented by Sokratis Dimitriadis (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rashad Oreifej (Orlando, Fla.), Ashish Jain (Austin, Texas), Joyce Cheuk Wai Wong (Markham, Canada) and Tzyy-Juin Kao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing power and performance in a computing system. A system management unit detects a condition indicating a change in a power-performance state of a given computing unit is...