ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,257, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing system and method of rendering" was invented by Enrique de Lucas (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of rendering a frame showing a scene formed by primitives in a tile-based graphics processing system includes a geometry processing phase tiling the primitives in the scene, to determine which primitives at least partially overlap which tiles of the frame to be rendered. A rendering phase obtains a fragment density map defining one or more texels, each texel corresponding to an ar...