ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,865, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Graphics processor with non-blocking concurrent architecture" was invented by Luke T. Peterson (San Francisco), James A. McCombe (San Francisco), Steven J. Clohset (San Francisco) and Jason R. Redgrave (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, systems and methods provide for forming groupings of a plurality of independently-specified computation workloads, such as graphics processing workloads, and in a specific example, ray tracing workloads. The workloads include a scheduling key, which is one basis on...