US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Early termination of graphics shaders" (California Inventors)

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

"Early termination of graphics shaders" was invented by Jeeva Paudel (Davis, Calif.), Chunling Hu (Campbell, Calif.) and Yue Tang (Livermore, Calif.).

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 detect an existence of a shader termination construct for at least one graphics shader. The apparatus may also perform a first static analysis for an identification of a set of suitable candidates for a control flow delinearization ass...