ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,909, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Memory power performance state optimization during image display" was invented by Gia Tung Phan (Markham, Canada), Ashish Jain (Austin, Texas), Chintan S. Patel (Austin, Texas), Benjamin Tsien (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jun Lei (Markham, Canada), Shang Yang (Markham, Canada) and Oswin Hall (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for prefetching data by a display controller. From time to time, a performance-state change of a memory are performed. During such change...