ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,514, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for data recovery after hang detection" was invented by Alexander Fuad Ashkar (Winter Park, Fla.), Harry J. Wise (Orlando, Fla.) and Manu Rastogi (Casselberry, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes a driver and an accelerated processing unit including a processor. The processor is configured to initiate a status check of wavefronts being executed by the accelerated processing unit responsive to receiving a status inquiry from the driver. Responsive to the status check indicating a hang, the proces...