US Patent Issued to Intel on July 8 for "Dynamic dependency scoreboard for overlapping pixels of primitives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,180, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic dependency scoreboard for overlapping pixels of primitives" was invented by Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.) and Eric Hoekstra (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that identifies that a first thread group of a pixel location is associated with a first shading rate, identifies that a second thread group of the pixel location is associated with a second shading rate, wherein the first shading rate is different from the second shading rate. The technology marks a dependency of the fi...