US Patent Issued to Arm on April 1 for "Graphics processors" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,052, issued on April 1, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processors" was invented by Tord Kvestad Oygard (Kirkenes, Norway), Philip Carlos Garcia (Austin, Texas) and Sandeep Kakarlapudi (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing tile-based rendering a first, pre-pass operation in which primitives in a sequence of primitives for a tile are processed to determine visibility information for the sequence of primitives, the visibility information being usable to determine whether or not fragments for a primitive in the sequence of primitives should subsequently be processed further for ...