ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,641, issued on June 17, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Random accessible lossless parameter data compression for tile based 3D computer graphics systems" was invented by Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for compressing vertex parameter data in a 3D computer graphic system, where the vertex parameter data is a data block relating to a plurality of vertices used for rendering an image. The data relating to each vertex includes multiple byte data relating to at least one parameter. The parameters include X, Y and Z c...