ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,409, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Graphics processing" was invented by Daren Croxford (Swaffham Prior, Great Britain), Mark Underwood (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Joseph Michael Richardson (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processor and method of operating a graphics processor to perform rendering followed by post-processing, in which post-processing tasks are permitted to be issued to processing cores of the graphics processor without waiting for all of the rendering tasks to have completed their processing, such that post-processing tasks are processed co...