ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,768, issued on May 13, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Multicore master/slave communications" was invented by Michael John Livesley (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master unit in a core of a plurality of cores in a graphics processing unit receives a set of image rendering tasks, assigns a first subset of the image rendering tasks to a first core of the plurality of cores and assigns a second subset of the image rendering tasks to a second core of the plurality of cores. The master unit transmits the first subset ...