US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on July 29 for "Post-tessellation blending in a GPU pipeline" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,030, issued on July 29, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Post-tessellation blending in a GPU pipeline" was invented by Peter Malcolm Lacey (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Simon Fenney (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Tobias Hector (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of post-tessellation blender hardware perform both domain shading and blending and whilst some vertices may not require blending, all vertices require domain shading. The blender hardware includes a cache and/or a content addressable memory and...