ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,122, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Memory allocation for 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 method and apparatus are provided for allocating memory for geometry processing in a 3-D graphics rendering system comprising multiple cores. Geometry processing work is divided up into discrete work-packages, which form an ordered sequence. Cores are assigned different work-packages to process, and make memory allocation requests to enable them to store the results of the processing. M...