US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 27 for "Virtual address access to GPU surface and sampler states" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,379, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtual address access to GPU surface and sampler states" was invented by Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.), Michael Apodaca (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Yoav Harel (Carmichael, Calif.), Guei-Yuan Lueh (San Jose, Calif.) and John A. Wiegert (Aloha, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a technique to enable access to entries in a surface state or sampler state using 64-bit virtual addresses. One embodiment provides a graphics core that includes memory access circuitry configured to facilitate access to the memory by functional unit...