ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,140, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Handling pipeline submissions across many compute units" was invented by Balaji Vembu (Folsom, Calif.), Altug Koker (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising an interconnect fabric comprising a processing cluster including an array of multiprocessors coupled to an interconnect fabric, scheduling circuitry to distribute a plurality of thread groups across the array of multiprocessors, each thread group comprising a plurality of threads. A first multiprocessor of th...