US Patent Issued to Arm on Oct. 21 for "Graphics processing" (British, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,681, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing" was invented by Mark Underwood (Cambridge, Great Britain), Wing-Tsi Henry Wong (Lund, Sweden), Olof Henrik Uhrenholt (Lomma, Sweden), Philip Carlos Garcia (Austin, Texas) and Daren Croxford (Swaffham Prior, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing a sequence of rendering jobs, rendering tasks for separate rendering jobs are permitted to overlap within the graphics processor's processing (shader) cores. A record is maintained of which rendering tasks are currently being processed by the graphics processor's processing...