US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 9 for "Accelerated draw indirect fetching" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,470, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Accelerated draw indirect fetching" was invented by Alexander Fuad Ashkar (Winter Park, Fla.), Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.), Rex Eldon McCrary (Orlando, Fla.), Yi Luo (Issaquah, Wash.), Manu Rastogi (Orlando, Fla.) and James Robert Klobcar (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing accelerated draw indirect fetching are disclosed. A fetch accelerator enables streamlined data fetching by looping internally and filling a draw queue for a micro engine. By using a dedicated fetch accelerator rather than processing da...