ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,527, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"3D graphics driver to split frames into multiple command buffer submissions based on analysis of previous frames" was invented by Stav Gurtovoy (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek Venkatesh (Bengaluru, India), Michael Apodaca (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Travis Schluessler (Berthoud, Colo.) and John Feit (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that marks a graphics resource as a flush candidate during a current frame, conducts an early flush of a command buffer from the graphics resource if a write event i...