US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 16 for "Compressing texture data on a per-channel basis" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,582, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Compressing texture data on a per-channel basis" was invented by Saurabh Sharma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Laurent Lefebvre (Markham, Canada), Sagar Shankar Bhandare (San Diego) and Ruijin Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sampling circuitry independently accesses channels of texture data that represent a set of pixels. One or more processing units separately compress the channels of the texture data and store compressed data representative of the channels of the texture data for the set of pix...