US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 22 for "Activation of integrated graphical processing units" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,912, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Activation of integrated graphical processing units" was invented by Chia-Cheng Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Jen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Heng-Fu Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chao-Shen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an interface, an integrated graphical processing unit (GPU), a discrete GPU, and a controller. The interface is to receive a connection to an external display device. The integrated GPU and the discrete GPU are communicatively coupled to the...