US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Watchpoints for debugging in a graphics environment" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,166, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Watchpoints for debugging in a graphics environment" was invented by John Wiegert (Aloha, Ore.), Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.), Fabian Schnell (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Kelvin Thomas Gardiner (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate watchpoints for debugging in a graphics environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes processing resources to perform graphics operations using a plurality of threads; and load store pipeline hardware circuitry coupled to the processing resources to: configure a watchpoint register with...