ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,415, issued on July 14, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing systems for executing processing pipelines" was invented by Sandeep Kakarlapudi (Trondheim, Norway), Frank Klaeboe Langtind (Melhus, Norway) and Andreas Due Engh-Halstvedt (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processor that is operable to execute a processing pipeline to generate an output. The graphics processor includes one or more processing circuits that can be configured (and re-configured) to execute a plurality of 'generic' pipeline stages defining at least a part of the processing pipeline. The 'generic' p...