ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,778, issued on June 10, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Processing tasks in a processing system" was invented by Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Donald Scorgie (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing an input task in a processing system involves duplicating the input task so as to form a first task and a second task; allocating memory including a first block of memory configured to store read-write data to be accessed during the processing of the first task; a second block of memory configured to store a copy of the read-write data ...