US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Aug. 19 for "Power management advisor to support power management control" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,256, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Power management advisor to support power management control" was invented by Greg Sadowski (Boxborough, Mass.) and Ying Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of registers to store sets of state information that represent a state history of a processing unit. The apparatus also includes a power management advisor (PMA) to generate a signal based on the sets of state information, wherein the signal indicates a probability that a power state transition of the processing unit achieves a target ...