ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,139, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Computing system and method for graphics processor boosting" was invented by Po-Yu Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shih-Chin Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ching-Yi Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and You-Ming Tsao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system with graphics processor boosting is shown. The computing system has a graphics processing unit controlling a display, a code memory storing instructions, and a processor operating the graphics processing unit to control the display. The processor is configured to execute the instru...