ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,720, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Apparatus and method" was invented by Maochang Dang (Shanghai), Li Hu (Shanghai) and Yanqiu Wu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising a set of discrete rendering tasks having an initial task order to be executed by a graphics processing unit, a GPU, detecting a dependency between a dependency group of two or more rendering tasks, a dependency being that one or more rendering tasks of the dependency group earlier in the initial task order depend upon an execution result of one or more rendering tasks of the dependency group later in the...