ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,540, issued on July 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-tile graphics processing unit" was invented by Michal Mrozek (Gdansk, Poland), Bartosz Dunajski (Gdansk, Poland), Ben Ashbaugh (Folsom, Calif.) and Brandon Fliflet (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate processing in a multi-tile device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of processing tiles, each including a memory device and a plurality of processing resources, coupled to the device memory, and a memory management unit to manage the memory devices in each of the plurality of tiles to perform al...