ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,126, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing" was invented by Olof Henrik Uhrenholt (Lomma, Sweden), Mark Underwood (Cambridge, Great Britain), Daren Croxford (Swaffham Prior, Great Britain) and Joseph Michael Richardson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When generating a sequence of render outputs using a graphics processor, the completion status of rendering tasks for different render outputs is tracked so that processing tasks for later render outputs in the sequence of outputs can be processed concurrently with processing tasks for earlier render outputs in...