US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on May 20 for "Secure and power efficient audio data processing" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,999, issued on May 20, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Secure and power efficient audio data processing" was invented by Guhan Krishnan (Boxborough, Mass.), Carl K. Wakeland (Santa Clara, Calif.), Saikishore Reddipalli (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Philip Ng (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for secure communications on a computing device. A host operating system (OS) runs on a host processor in communication with a host memory. A secure OS runs on a coprocessor in communication with a secure memory. The coprocessor ...