ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,463, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for viewport shifting of non-real time 3D applications" was invented by Joanna Douglas (Hillsboro, Ore.), Michal Taryma (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mario Garcia (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Carlos Dominguez (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for super sampling and viewport shifting of non-real time 3D applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processing unit includes a processing resource to execute graphics commands to provide graphics for an application, a capture tool to capture the graphics commands, and...