US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Logical slot to distributed hardware slot scheduling for graphics work" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,829, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Logical slot to distributed hardware slot scheduling for graphics work" was invented by Steven Fishwick (St Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques relate to assigning graphic work from logical slots of graphics control circuitry to distributed hardware slots of graphics processor sub-units. In some embodiments, control circuitry assigns respective portions of a set of graphics work from a logical slot to distributed hardware slots based on control information for the set of graphics work. When a full number of distributed har...