ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,327, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Graphics processing systems" was invented by Sandeep Kakarlapudi (Trondheim, Norway), Andreas Engh-Halstvedt (Trondheim, Norway) and Frank Klaeboe Langtind (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a graphics processor to process sets of geometry to generate an output. Each set of geometry is associated with lower level geometry including vertex data to be used when rendering the geometry as well a separate higher level representation of the geometry. The higher level representations of the geometry can be obtained by the graphic...