ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,043, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"GPU memory copy on write strategy for cloud gaming and computing" was invented by AnZhong Huang (Shanghai), ZhengSan Jian (Shanghai), Weilie Zhao (Markham, Canada) and Owen Zhang (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for performing efficient sharing of network-based resources. In various implementations, a computing system includes a remote server providing a streaming service to a client computing device over a network. The remote servers include shared resources that provid...