US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on March 4 for "Buffer checker for task processing fault detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,886, issued on March 4, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Buffer checker for task processing fault detection" was invented by Wei Shao (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Christopher Wilson (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Damien McNamara (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing system with a data store includes processing units for processing tasks. A check unit forms a signature which is characteristic of an output from processing a task on a processing unit, and a fault detection unit compares signatures formed at the check unit. Each task is proc...