US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 7 for "System and method for scheduling operations in a graphics pipeline" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,767, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for scheduling operations in a graphics pipeline" was invented by Matthaus G. Chajdas (Munich), Michael J. Mantor (Orlando, Fla.), Rex Eldon McCrary (Orlando, Fla.), Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.), Robert Martin (Boxborough, Mass.) and Brian Kenneth Bennett (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a hierarchical scheduling in fixed-function graphics pipeline are disclosed. In various implementations, a processor includes a pipeline comprising a plurality of...