ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,324, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Multicore state caching in graphics processing" was invented by Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of image rendering tasks and state information are distributed in a graphics processing unit (GPU) having a plurality of cores. A first master unit in one of the cores receives the set of image rendering tasks and the state information, and stores the state information in a memory. The first master unit splits the set of image rendering tasks into a first subset of tasks and a second subset of tas...