ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,332, issued on April 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for direct data transmission in image processing systems" was invented by Jonathan Philip Bonsor-Matthews (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Mark Thompson (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for efficient data movement between various components in an image processing system are described. In a first mode, a dedicated data bus is configured for direct transmission of image data between the ISP core and the video core and/or display core. Using this bus, the video core and/or di...