US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on July 22 for "Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,633, issued on July 22, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing system" was invented by Diego Jesus (Watford, Great Britain), John W. Howson (St. Albans, Great Britain), Panagiotis Velentzas (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Robert Brigg (Watford, Great Britain) and Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and tiling engines for tiling primitives in a tile based graphics processing system in which a rendering space is divided into a plurality of t...