ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,728, issued on July 1, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Job limit enforcement for improved multitenant quality of service" was invented by Ahmed M. Abdelkhalek (Ajax, Canada), Rutao Zhang (Markham, Canada), Bokun Zhang (Markham, Canada), Min Zhang (King City, Canada), Yinan Jiang (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Jeffrey G. Cheng (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided related to a scheduler to receive a job request from a virtual function associated with a tenant for execution by at least one processing unit. The scheduler validates the job request in accordance with one or m...