US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 9 for "System-wide low power management" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,538, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System-wide low power management" was invented by Benjamin Tsien (Santa Clara, Calif.), Greggory D. Donley (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Bryan P. Broussard (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient power management for a multi-node computing system are disclosed. A computing system includes multiple nodes. When power down negotiation is distributed, negotiation for system-wide power down occurs within a lower level of a node hierarchy prior to negotiation for power down occurring at a...