US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on June 3 for "Reducing redundant rendering in a graphics system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,025, issued on June 3, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Reducing redundant rendering in a graphics system" was invented by John W. Howson (St. Albans, Great Britain), Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain) and Maurizio Zucchelli (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing a render using a graphics processing unit that implements a tile-based graphics pipeline where a rendering space is sub-divided into tiles. Geometry data for the render is received, the geometry data including primitives associated with one or more vertex shader progra...