ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,992, issued on March 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Work graph scheduler implementation" was invented by Matthaus G. Chajdas (Munich), Michael J. Mantor (Orlando, Fla.), Rex Eldon McCrary (Orlando, Fla.), Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.), Robert Martin (Boxborough, Mass.), Dominik Baumeister (Munich) and Fabian Robert Sebastian Wildgrube (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a hierarchical scheduler. In various implementations, a processor includes a global scheduler, and a plurality of independent local schedulers with each of the...