US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 8 for "Graphics processing unit and method of graphics processing" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,204, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing unit and method of graphics processing" was invented by Philippe Andre Jean-Baptiste Coucaud (Lund, Sweden), Christopher Edouard Gautier (Malmo, Sweden) and Mark Stephen Bellamy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation of a tile-based graphics processor, including: receiving an instruction to process data to produce an output; detecting an indicator that a portion of the output is to be processed with redundancy; associating the indicator with at least one tile associated with the portion of the output; duplica...