US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 30 for "Arbitrated interrupt steering in heterogeneous processors" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,153, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Arbitrated interrupt steering in heterogeneous processors" was invented by Pravesh Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Benjamin Tsien (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a heterogeneous processor architecture having heterogeneous processors, and a control circuit that can assign, in response to an interrupt, the interrupt to one of the heterogenous processors that is selected based on power efficiency. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed."

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