US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on July 28 for "Plane-based screen capture" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,849, issued on July 28, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Plane-based screen capture" was invented by Yuping Shen (Orlando, Fla.) and Min Zhang (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received from an application to present content generated by the application in an overlay plane of a multi-plane display system. Responsive to determining that current system resources support presentation of the generated content in the overlay plane, frames of the generated content are displayed in the overlay plane and captured directly from the overlay plane s...