US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Accessing primitive data using tessellated primitive ID" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,646, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Accessing primitive data using tessellated primitive ID" was invented by Peter Malcolm Lacey (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating identifiers (IDs) for primitives and optionally vertices during tessellation. The IDs include a binary sequence of bits that represents the sub-division steps taken during the tessellation process and so encodes the way in which tessellation has been performed. Such an ID may subsequently be used to generate a random primitive or vertex and hence recalculate ve...