ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,283, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Out-of-order pixel shading and rasterization" was invented by Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Jorge Garcia Pabon (Folsom, Calif.) and John Gierach (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that determines that a state of a plurality of primitives is associated with out-of-order execution. The plurality of primitives is associated with a raster order. The technology reorders the plurality of primitives from a raster order, and distributes one or more of pixel processing operations or rasteri...