US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Feb. 17 for "Scalable graphics processing using dynamic shader engine allocation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,299, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scalable graphics processing using dynamic shader engine allocation" was invented by Alexander Fuad Ashkar (Winter Park, Fla.), Manu Rastogi (Casselberry, Fla.) and Ping Jing (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for implementing selective activation and deactivation of a dynamically allocated subset of shader engines, such as based on application-based profile information and/or on an active system power configuration. Instructions for execution are received from an application associated with a first application p...