US Patent Issued to Arm on June 3 for "Graphics processing method, system and storage medium for achieving increased hidden surface removal efficiency" (Swedish, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,023, issued on June 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing method, system and storage medium for achieving increased hidden surface removal efficiency" was invented by Tord Kvestad Oygard (Kirkenes, Norway) and Toni Viki Brkic (Staffanstorp, 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 primi...