US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 2 for "Vertex index routing through culling shader for two level primitive batch binning" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,528, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vertex index routing through culling shader for two level primitive batch binning" was invented by Vishrut Vaibhav (Orlando, Fla.), Michael John Livesley (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Tad Robert Litwiller (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing rendering operations are disclosed herein. The techniques include providing indices and vertices to a culling shader; culling primitives and outputting primitives and indices that are not culled; and generating information for a fine binning pass based on the indices a...