ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,731, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).
"Accelerated frame transmission" was invented by Syed Athar Hussain (Markham, Canada), Anthony W L Koo (Markham, Canada) and David Glen (Markham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing unit (GPU) of a processing system transmits pixel data for a frame to a display in a compressed burst, so that the pixel data is communicated at a rate that is higher than the rate at which the display scans out the pixel data to refresh the frame at a display panel. By transmitting pixel data for the frame in a compressed burst, the GPU shortens the time...