US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 14 for "Constant-based calculations in shader prologue shared function" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,118, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Constant-based calculations in shader prologue shared function" was invented by Przemyslaw Szymanski (Gdansk, Poland) and Rafal Rudnicki (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system creates a single shared instance of a shared function from shader code for multiple instances of the shader. The system creates multiple instances of a primary shader function from shader code to compute instance-specific values. The system creates the single instance of the shared function to compute a value used by the multiple instances of the primary shader function...