ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,684, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Time slicing" was invented by Subhasish Ghosh (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of scheduling a plurality of active GPU drivers in a GPU includes, for one or more of the plurality of active GPU drivers, allocating a portion of a scheduling interval to the active GPU driver and selecting an active GPU driver for execution according to a priority-based scheduling algorithm. In response to an active GPU driver executing within its allocated portion, the priority level of the active GPU driver is incr...