ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,760, issued on May 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Garbage collecting wavefront" was invented by Anthony Gutierrez (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sooraj Puthoor (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system executes a specialized wavefront, referred to as a "garbage collecting wavefront" or GCWF, to identify and deallocate resources such as, for example, scalar registers, vector registers, and local data share space, that are no longer being used by wavefronts of a workgroup executing at the processing system (i.e., dead resources). In some embodiments, the GCWF is programmed to have...