US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Feb. 3 for "Dynamic kernel memory space allocation" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,813, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic kernel memory space allocation" was invented by Anthony Gutierrez (Bellevue, Wash.), Muhammad Amber Hassaan (Austin, Texas) and Sooraj Puthoor (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit includes one or more processor cores and a set of registers to store configuration information for the processing unit. The processing unit also includes a coprocessor configured to receive a request to modify a memory allocation for a kernel concurrently with the kernel executing on the at least one processor core. The coprocessor is...