“On September 12, the US Patent & Trademark Office published six of Apple’s newly granted patents which included the following: ‘Method and apparatus for saving power in pipelined processors,’ ‘Method and apparatus for implementing a sleep proxy for services on a network,’ ‘Single-channel convolution in a vector processing computer system,’ ‘Modular logic board chassis for a desktop computer,’ ‘Mechanism for color-space neutral (video) effects scripting engine’ and ‘Rendering translucent layers in a display system,’” Neo reports for MacNN.

Full article with details and patent filing abstracts here.

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