ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,634, issued on July 22, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Allocation of resources to tasks" was invented by Panagiotis Velentzas (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), John W. Howson (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Richard Broadhurst (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing resources in a graphics processing pipeline includes, in response to selecting a task for execution within a texture/shading unit, allocating to the task both a static allocation of temporary registers for the entire task and a dynamic allocation of temporary registers. The dynamic a...