ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,430, issued on May 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Typed unordered access view overloading on pixel pipeline" was invented by Jay Jardosh (Folsom, Calif.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.) and Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses provide for graphics processor technology that routes untyped unordered access view (UAV) messages to a next level memory cache, routes typed UAV messages and render target messages to a pixel pipeline, and processes, via the pixel pipeline, the typed UAV messages. The technology can also provide for the pixel pipe...