US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on April 21 for "Smart access streaming" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,753, issued on April 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Smart access streaming" was invented by Paul Blinzer (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Livingstain Ziman (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for rendering textures by prefetching texture data are disclosed. Source texture data is identified based at least in part on one or more programmable instructions. A prefetch of the source texture data is caused based on level of details associated with the source texture data. Further, a list data blocks of the source texture data and a mapping between each data...