US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 2 for "Graphics processor cache for data from multiple memory spaces" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,891, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Graphics processor cache for data from multiple memory spaces" was invented by Dimitri Tan (Austin, Texas) and William V. Miller (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In disclosed embodiment, a graphics processor is configured to operate on data in multiple memory spaces. Data cache circuitry may cache data for the graphics processor circuitry, including data from multiple memory spaces. The data cache circuitry may include tag circuitry configured to compare the following information from access requests to the data cache circuitry with tags of entries ...