ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,684, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Memory management for multicore 3-D graphics rendering" was invented by Michael John Livesley (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicore graphics rendering system includes a plurality of cores configured to implement tile-based rendering of a stream of primitives. First cores are configured to process groups of primitives, to produce transformed geometry data. The graphics rendering system uses at least one virtualised memory space. At least one virtualised memory space is segmented such that the first ...