ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,325, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Tile based computer graphics" was invented by Steven J. Fishwick (Kings Langley, Great Britain) and John W. Howson (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating and shading a computer graphics image in a tile based computer graphics system is provided. Geometry data is supplied and a plurality of primitives are derived from the geometry data. One or more modified primitives are then derived from at least one of the plurality of primitives. For each of a plurality of tiles, an object ...