US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 23 for "Private memory management using utility thread" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,047, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Private memory management using utility thread" was invented by Benjiman L. Goodman (Cedar Park, Texas), Terence M. Potter (Austin, Texas), Anjana Rajendran (Austin, Texas), Mark I. Luffel (Austin, Texas) and William V. Miller (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to private memory management using a mapping thread, which may be persistent. In some embodiments, a graphics processor is configured to generate a pool of private memory pages for a set of graphics work that includes multiple threads. The processor may maintai...