US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Multi-output decoder for texture decompression" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,516, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Multi-output decoder for texture decompression" was invented by Kenneth Rovers (St. Albans, Great Britain) and Yoong Chert Foo (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder decodes a plurality of texels from a received block of texture data encoded according to the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) format. A parameter decode unit decodes configuration data for the received block of texture data, a colour decode unit decodes colour endpoint data for the plurality of texels in dependence on the configuration data, a weight...