US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Memory management for multicore 3-D graphics rendering" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,234, issued on Sept. 9, 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. The graphics rendering system uses at least one virtualised memory space. A hierarchical index is provided, to index the physical memory portions associated with virtual memory portions in the at least one virtualised memory space. The portio...