US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on April 7 for "Controlling scheduling of a GPU" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,573, issued on April 7, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Controlling scheduling of a GPU" was invented by Dave Roberts (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jackson Dsouza (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The operation of a GPU is controlled based on one or more deadlines by which one or more GPU tasks must be completed and estimates of the time required to complete the execution of a first GPU task (which is currently being executed) and the time required to execute one or more other GPU tasks (which are not currently being executed). Based on a comparison between the deadli...