US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 7 for "Sliced graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture in processor-based devices" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,937, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sliced graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture in processor-based devices" was invented by Jian Liang (San Diego), Andrew Evan Gruber (Arlington, Mass.), Tao Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xuefeng Tang (San Diego), Vishwanath Shashikant Nikam (Bangalore, India), Nigel Poole (West Newton, Mass.), Kalyan Kumar Bhiravabhatla (Bengaluru, India), Fei Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Zilin Ying (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects disclosed herein, a GPU based on a sliced GPU architecture includes multiple hardware slices. The GPU further includes a command proc...