ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,830, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Graphics processing" was invented by Olof Henrik Uhrenholt (Lomma, Sweden), Philip Carlos Garcia (Austin, Texas) and Mark Underwood (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 from 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 the sequence of outputs whilst ensuring that any dependenc...