ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,304, issued on June 9, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Processing command submission in graphics processors" was invented by 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 command for causing a graphics processor to perform processing work for a graphics processing pipeline that the graphics processor can execute. A command to perform processing work for the graphics processing pipeline includes a first portion including a generic opcode that can be interpreted by a command processing circuit of the graphics processor to identify that the...