ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,005, issued on July 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing" was invented by Rafal Stepuch (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Frank Klaeboe Langtind (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to tile-based rendering systems. In particular there is provided a new primitive list format in which a sequence of commands generated for the primitive list includes a number of different respective types of commands including 'primitive' type commands storing primitive data, 'state' type commands storing state data and 'configuration' type commands for storing configuratio...