US Patent Issued to Intel on April 21 for "Apparatus and method for efficient graphics virtualization" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,871, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for efficient graphics virtualization" was invented by Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Pattabhiraman K (Bangalore, India), Balaji Vembu (Folsom, Calif.), Altug Koker (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Niranjan L. Cooray (Folsom, Calif.) and Josh B. Mastronarde (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are described for allocating local memories to virtual machines. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a command streamer to queue commands from a pluralit...