US Patent Issued to Arm on Jan. 13 for "Graphics processors and graphics processing method for achieving increased hidden surface removal efficiency" (Swedish, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,948, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processors and graphics processing method for achieving increased hidden surface removal efficiency" was invented by Tord Kvestad Oygard (Kirkenes, Norway) and Olof Henrik Uhrenholt (Lomma, Sweden).

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 primiti...