US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (SHANGHAI), ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 28 for "Modifying device status in single virtual function mode" (Chinese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,891, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Modifying device status in single virtual function mode" was invented by Yinan Jiang (Markham, Canada), ZhenYu Min (Shanghai) and WenWen Tang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes physical function circuitry to execute virtual functions and a processing unit configured to operate in a first mode that allows more than one virtual function to execute on the physical function circuitry and a second mode that constrains the physical function circuitry to executing a sin...