US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Compression and decompression of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,886, issued on Feb. 3, 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 decompression unit are provided for decompressing compressed data to determine one or more sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system. A block of compressed data for a block of sub-primitive presence indications is received. The block of sub-primitive presence indications comprises a plurality of sub-blocks of sub-p...