ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,471, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatus to align media workloads" was invented by Charu Srivastava (Danville, Calif.), Changliang Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Srikanth Potluri (Folsom, Calif.), Nir Gerber (Haifa, Israel), Qixiong Bian (Beaverton, Ore.) and Stanley Baran (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to align processing events. An example apparatus includes a comparator to compare a value of a counter to a threshold value, the threshold value associated with an amount of time to defer provision ...