US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 18 for "System and method to reduce power consumption when conveying data to a device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,196, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method to reduce power consumption when conveying data to a device" was invented by Raul Gutierrez (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for moving data from a memory in a computing system to an I/O device. A system includes a processor, memory, I/O controller, and power management circuitry. An application stores data in the memory that is to be ultimately conveyed to an I/O device. The I/O controller is configured to convey the data to an I/O device according to a service interval....