US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 17 for "Compiler-directed graph-based command dispatch for accelerators" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,997, issued on March 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compiler-directed graph-based command dispatch for accelerators" was invented by Anthony Gutierrez (Bellevue, Wash.), Paul Blinzer (Bellevue, Wash.), Samuel Bayliss (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Alexander Zekany (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ali Arda Eker (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a pull-based model to dispatch tasks in an accelerator device. That is, rather than a push-based model where a connected host pushes tasks into hardware (HW) queues in the accelerator device, the embodiments herein describe a...