ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,032, issued on May 27, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Multi-core draw splitting" was invented by Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicore graphics processing unit (GPU) and a method of operating a GPU are provided. The GPU comprises at least a first core and a second core. At least one of the cores in the multicore GPU comprises a master unit configured to distribute geometry processing tasks between at least the first core and the second core."
The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2024, under Application No. 18/439,730.
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