US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 21 for "Out-of-order execution of graphics processing unit texture sampler operations" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,680, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Out-of-order execution of graphics processing unit texture sampler operations" was invented by Carlos Nava Rodriguez (Folsom, Calif.), Benjamin Pletcher (Mather, Calif.), Yoav Harel (Carmichael, Calif.), Bret Martin (Folsom, Calif.) and Sudarshanram Shetty (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are generally directed facilitating out-of-order execution of GPU texture sampler operations. An embodiment of a method includes a texture sampler of a GPU maintaining (i) a latency queue operable to store information regarding a se...