US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Parse techniques for graphics workload distribution" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,286, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Parse techniques for graphics workload distribution" was invented by Jason D. Carroll (Oviedo, Fla.), Ali Rabbani Rankouhi (Bushey, Great Britain), Michael A. Mang (Oviedo, Fla.) and Ralph C. Taylor (Deland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to distributing geometry work in a graphics processor. In some embodiments, multiple geometry pipelines are configured to process, in parallel, multiple segments of a set of geometry work. In some embodiments, control circuitry is configured to split operations from the set of graphics wor...