US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 3 for "Pixel-aligned drawing with floating-point layout" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,008, issued on June 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pixel-aligned drawing with floating-point layout" was invented by George Francis Mount (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses directed to defining a layout (100) and drawing elements for display by a graphical user interface (810) on a display screen (808) of a computing device (802). The process of laying out a drawing area occurs in floating point, but drawing occurs aligned to pixel boundaries of the display screen. Drawing may also occur relative to pixel offsets with respect to the display sc...