ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,333, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Methods and apparatus for processing graphics data" was invented by Olof Henrik Uhrenholt (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising graphics data receiver circuitry, rendering circuitry and render feedback circuitry. Graphics data comprising tiles of texture mipmap data is received and rendered to produce a rendered output, based on a used set of tiles. An intermediate representation of the used set is generated in the form of a bitmap. Based on this, a z-ordering is applied...