US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 8 for "Queue management for task graphs" (Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,670, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Queue management for task graphs" was invented by Ali Arda Eker (Bellevue, Wash.), Martha Massee Barker (New York) and Anthony Thomas Gutierrez (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the described techniques, a command processor processes a fiber graph that includes fibers each having one or more tasks and indicates dependencies between the fibers and between tasks within the fibers. As part of this, the command processor dispatches a task from a fiber for execution by a processing element array based on the fiber being enq...