US Patent Issued to Intel on March 4 for "Methods and apparatus to perform dirty region reads and writes to reduce memory bandwidth usage" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,798, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to perform dirty region reads and writes to reduce memory bandwidth usage" was invented by Stanley Baran (Chandler, Ariz.), Satish Kumar Bhrugumalla (Fremont, Calif.), Kristoffer Fleming (Chandler, Ariz.), Charu Srivastava (Danville, Calif.), James Holland (Folsom, Calif.) and Jong Dae Oh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes image processing circuitry to determine an uncovered region of a background image in a current video frame relative to the background image in a previous video frame, the unc...