US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Affinity-based graphics scheduling" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,339, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Affinity-based graphics scheduling" was invented by Andrew M. Havlir (Orlando, Fla.), Ajay Simha Modugala (Orlando, Fla.), Benjamin Bowman (London) and Yunjun Zhang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to affinity-based scheduling of graphics work. In disclosed embodiments, first and second groups of graphics processor sub-units may share respective first and second caches. Distribution circuitry may receive a software-specified set of graphics work and a software-indicated mapping of portions of the set of graphics wor...