ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,046, issued on July 22, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Scheduling tasks using swap flags" was invented by Simon Nield (Kings Langley, Great Britain), Yoong-Chert Foo (Kings Langley, Great Britain), Adam de Grasse (Kings Langley, Great Britain) and Luca Iuliano (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of activating scheduling instructions within a parallel processing unit is described. The method comprises decoding, in an instruction decoder, an instruction in a scheduled task in an active state and checking, by an instruction controller, if a swap flag is se...