US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Processor having first and second pipelines and blocking circuit enabling second pipeline to process tasks during deallocation of memory allocated to first pipeline" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,214, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Processor having first and second pipelines and blocking circuit enabling second pipeline to process tasks during deallocation of memory allocated to first pipeline" was invented by Michael John Livesley (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Alistair Goudie (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a first processing pipeline, a second processing pipeline and a memory management that allocates memory regions from memory for the first processing pipeline to...