ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,709, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Periodic reset of graphics processor unit in safety-critical graphics processing system" was invented by Philip Morris (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Mario Sopena Novales (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Jamie Broome (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing safety-critical rendering at a graphics processing unit within a graphics processing system, the method comprising: receiving, at the graphics processing system, graphical data for safety-critical rendering at the graphics processing ...