US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 18 for "Reconfigurable virtual graphics and compute processor pipeline" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,527, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable virtual graphics and compute processor pipeline" was invented by Timour T. Paltashev (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.) and Rex Eldon McCrary (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing unit (GPU) includes a plurality of programmable processing cores configured to process graphics primitives and corresponding data and a plurality of fixed-function hardware units. The plurality of processing cores and the plurality of fixed-function hardware units are configured to implement a configurab...