ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,572, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Separately processing regions or objects of interest from a render engine to a display engine or a display panel" was invented by Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video or graphics, received by a render engine within a graphics processing unit, may be segmented into a region of interest such as foreground and a region of less interest such as background. In other embodiments, an object of interest may be segmented from the rest of the depiction in a case of a video game or graphics processing workload. Each of the segmented portions ...