US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Prediction and use of processor inactivity for rendering frames" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,630, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Prediction and use of processor inactivity for rendering frames" was invented by Tyler M. Fox (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrey Pokrovskiy (Mountain View, Calif.), Aditya Krishnadevan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and James R. Montgomerie (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device performs a first operation before a first commit deadline, resulting in a first frame being rendered and displayed in a first cycle. A second operation is performed, before a second commit deadline, resulting in a second frame being rendered and displayed in a second cycl...