US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Compression and decompression of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,200, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Compression and decompression of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system" was invented by Simon Fenney (St. Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a compression unit are provided for compressing, into a block of compressed data, a block of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system. The block of sub-primitive presence indications comprises a plurality of sub-blocks of sub-primitive presence indications. A plurality of candidates for combinations of presence in...