ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,331, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive caches for power optimization of graphics processing" was invented by Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a graphics processing unit (GPU). The apparatus may monitor a first hit rate for a first cache at a first capacity level. The apparatus may also adjust a capacity of the first cache from the first capacity level to a second capacity level. Further, the apparatus may calculate a second hit rate for the fir...