US Patent Issued to Apple on June 24 for "Graphics geometry processing with segmented and non-segmented sets of work" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,485, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Graphics geometry processing with segmented and non-segmented sets of work" was invented by Arjun Thottappilly (Oviedo, Fla.), Jason D. Carroll (Oviedo, Fla.) and Benjamin Bowman (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to geometry processing in graphics processors. In some embodiments, geometry processing circuitry is configured to execute multiple segments of a segmented set of geometry work at least partially in parallel using multiple geometry processing pipelines, execute a single-segment set of geometry work using a single g...