ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,005, issued on June 3, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Task assembly for SIMD processing using characteristics of computation instance for allocation to a task" was invented by Andrea Sansottera (Haywards Heath, Great Britain), Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain), John Howson (St. Albans, Great Britain) and Jonathan Redshaw (St. Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache system in a graphics processing system stores graphics data items for use in rendering primitives. It is determined whether graphics data items relating to primitives to be rendered are present in t...