US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Anisotropic texture filtering by combining isotropic filtering results at each of a plurality of sampling points" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,334, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Anisotropic texture filtering by combining isotropic filtering results at each of a plurality of sampling points" was invented by Rostam King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing anisotropic texture filtering includes generating one or more parameters describing an elliptical footprint in texture space; performing isotropic filtering at each of a plurality of sampling points in an ellipse to be sampled, the ellipse to be sampled based on the elliptical footprint; and combining results ...