ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,058, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Dynamic adjustment of power modes" was invented by Alexander Sabino Duenas (Markham, Canada), Ashwini Chandrashekhara Holla (Markham, Canada), Raman M. Srinivasan (Austin, Texas), Michael J. Austin (Austin, Texas), Xinzhe Li (Markham, Canada) and Jun Huang (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic adjustment of power modes including: detecting an application identified in an application power policy; limiting an application power consumption of a computing component based on the applicat...