ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,213, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Efficient hybrid-graphics pipeline" was invented by Yuping Shen (Oviedo, Fla.), Adeel Nasim Syed (Waterdown, Canada), Anthony Wai Lap Koo (Aurora, Canada), Bohan Shi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Felipe Sander Pereira Clark (Woodbridge, Canada), ZhuoQiao Liang (Shanghai), HongYu Lu (Shanghai), Michael Gharbharan (Mississauga, Canada), Nitant Patel (Brampton, Canada) and YongYong Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for efficiently managing jobs of a workload performed among m...