ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,202, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Ordering of patch selection in tessellation operations" was invented by Peter Malcolm Lacey (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling the order in which primitives, generated during tessellation, are output by the tessellation unit involves sub-dividing a patch, selecting one of the two sub-patches which are formed by the sub-division and tessellating that sub-patch until no further sub-division is possible before tessellating the other (non-selected) sub-patch. The method is recursively ...