US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "Shared control bus for graphics processors with intra-substrate and cross-substrate interfaces" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,536, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Shared control bus for graphics processors with intra-substrate and cross-substrate interfaces" was invented by Max J. Batley (London), Jonathan M. Redshaw (St. Albans, Great Britain), Ji Rao (London) and Ali Rabbani Rankouhi (Bushey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to a shared control bus for communicating between primary control circuitry and multiple distributed graphics processor units. In some embodiments, a set of multiple graphics processor units including at least first and second graphics processors on diff...