US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies on Aug. 11 for "I/O hardware power management" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,871, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"I/O hardware power management" was invented by Carlos Javier Moreira (Markham, Canada), Michael McLean (Markham, Canada) and Philip Ng (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes an input/output (I/O) system clock configured to operate at one of a plurality of clock states and a control circuit configured to dynamically adjust a clock state of the I/O system clock. The control circuit can update an activity level of a current clock state based at least on I/O traffic activity and, in response to the activity level going ...