ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,606, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for directing application requests for rendering" was invented by Gregory A. Grebe (Orlando, Fla.), Jonathan Lawrence Campbell (Orlando, Fla.) and Layla A. Mah (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for directing image rendering, implemented in a computer system including a plurality of processors includes determining one or more processors in the system on which to execute one or more commands. A graphics processing unit (GPU) control application program interface (API) determines one or more pr...