US Patent Issued to ATI TECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on June 2 for "Systems and methods for providing extended memory access in a parallel processor" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,362, issued on June 2, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada) and ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing extended memory access in a parallel processor" was invented by Ahmed Mohammed ElShafiey Mohammed ElTantawy (Woodbridge, Canada), Brian Emberling (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Stanislav Mekhanoshin (Salinas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel processor assigns data for use by one or more tasks to a shared memory or memories associated with a plurality of compute units. A scheduler or other controller within or otherwise associated with the parallel processor a...