ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,132, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing system and method of rendering" was invented by Enrique de Lucas (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of rendering, in a rendering space, a scene formed by primitives in a graphics processing system. A geometry processing phase includes the step of storing fragment shading rate data representing a first fragment shading rate value and associating data identifying a primitive with the fragment shading rate data. A rendering phase includes the steps of retrieving the stored fragment...