US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on March 18 for "Control flow invariant resource identification" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,353, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Control flow invariant resource identification" was invented by Zhuo Chen (Markham, Canada) and Steven J. Tovey (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to efficiently process graphics data, operations are performed including allocating a first set of resource slots for a first execution instance of a pipeline shader program; correlating the first set of resource slots with graphics pipeline passes; and on a second execution instance of the pipeline shader program, assig...