US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 21 for "Technique for improving power state transition latency for computing device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,888, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technique for improving power state transition latency for computing device" was invented by Donny Yi (Austin, Texas) and Karthik Rao (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed technique includes in response to a trigger to power a functional element of a device to a lower power state, operating a set of backup state elements for the functional element in a lower power mode; and resuming operation of the functional element and the backup state elements in a higher power state."

The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2022, under Appli...