ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,208, issued on July 8, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Multi-rendering in graphics processing units using render progression checks" was invented by John Howson (St. Albans, Great Britain) and Steven Fishwick (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing unit having multiple groups of processor cores for rendering graphics data for allocated tiles and outputting the processed data to regions of a memory resource. Scheduling logic allocates sets of tiles to the groups of processor cores to perform a first render, and at a time when at least one of the g...