ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,257, issued on May 20, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Data processing systems" was invented by Edward Hardy (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Tord Kvestad Oygard (Kirkenes, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a data processing system, such as a graphics processing system, is disclosed. A set of plural execution threads performs an iterative data processing operation in which the number of execution threads that perform a respective data processing operation decreases from one iteration to the next. The iterative data processing operation is performed such that at least one execution thread ...