ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,326, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for buffer sharing" was invented by Zhifang Long (Shanghai), Yejun Guo (Shanghai), Jiang Ji (Shanghai), Yu Wang (Shenyang, China) and Wenju He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are generally directed to methods and apparatuses for buffer sharing. An embodiment of a method comprises: receiving a plurality of graphics data comprising a first graphics data, each of the plurality of graphics data mapped to a corresponding buffer in a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) memory, wherein the first graphics data is mapped to a first b...