US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Updating shader scheduling policy at runtime" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,604, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Updating shader scheduling policy at runtime" was invented by Thomas Daniel Perry (Bellevue, Wash.), Steven John Tovey (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Mehdi Saeedi (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for updating and optimizing task scheduling policies are disclosed. A new policy is obtained and updated at runtime by a client based on a server analyzing a wide spectrum of telemetry data on a relatively long time scale. Instead of only looking at the tel...