US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 23 for "Graphics processing methods and systems for encoding primitive metadata" (British, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,887, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing methods and systems for encoding primitive metadata" 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 comprises a method for encoding primitive metadata into a primitive list in which a primitive metadata command is included into the primitive list that is able to indicate types of primitive metadata from a set of different types of primitive metadata that can be indicated by...