US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 28 for "Compiler directed fine grained power management" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,398, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc..

"Compiler directed fine grained power management" was invented by Vedula Venkata Srikant Bharadwaj (Bellevue, Wash.), Shomit N. Das (Pflugerville, Texas), Anthony T. Gutierrez (Bellevue, Wash.) and Vignesh Adhinarayanan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and computer-implemented instructions for processor power management implemented in a compiler. In some implementations, a characteristic of code is determined. An instruction based on the determined characteristic is inserted into the code. The code and inserted instruction are...