ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,088, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Task repacking" was invented by Panagiotis Velentzas (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), John W. Howson (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Richard Broadhurst (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of repacking tasks in a graphics pipeline includes, in response to a task reaching a checkpoint in a program, determining if the task is eligible for repacking. If the task is eligible for repacking, the task is de-scheduled and it is determined whether repacking conditions are satisfied. In the event that the re...