US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Method for improving GPU efficiency via programmatic tests of synchronization primitive progress" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,637, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Method for improving GPU efficiency via programmatic tests of synchronization primitive progress" was invented by Johnathan Alsop (Seattle) and Bradford M. Beckmann (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for efficiently scheduling instructions for a parallel data processing circuit. In various implementations, a computing system includes a parallel data processing circuit with multiple compute circuits, each uses multiple single instruction multiple data (SIMD) circuit...