US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Nov. 4 for "Method of task transition between heterogenous processors" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,787, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method of task transition between heterogenous processors" was invented by Alexander J. Branover (Boxborough, Mass.), Benjamin Tsien (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Elliot H. Mednick (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and apparatus determines whether a task should be relocated from a first processor to a second processor by comparing performance metrics to associated thresholds or by using other indications. The task is relocated from the first processor to the second processor and executed on the second processor base...