ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,329, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Opportunistic write-back discard of single-use vector register values" was invented by Abhay Raj Kumar Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wilson Wai Lun Fung (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing opportunistic write-back discard of single-use vector register values. The method includes executing instructions of a GPU in a default mode, detecting a beginning of a single-use section that includes instructions that produce single-use vector register values, and executing instructions in a single-use mode. The method inclu...