US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on March 31 for "Detecting error in safety-critical GPU by monitoring for response to an instruction" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,946, issued on March 31, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Detecting error in safety-critical GPU by monitoring for response to an instruction" was invented by Mario Sopena Novales (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Philip Morris (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting an error at a graphics processing unit causes an instruction including a request for a response from a graphics processing unit to be provided to the graphics processing unit. A timer being configured to expire after a time period is initialised, and during the time period the grap...