ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,698, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Joint denoising and supersampling of graphics data" was invented by Manu Mathew Thomas (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco), Anton Kaplanyan (Mercer Island, Wash.), SungYe Kim (Folsom, Calif.) and Gabor Liktor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Joint denoising and supersampling of graphics data is described. An example of a graphics processor includes multiple processing resources, including a least a first processing resource including a pipeline to perform a supersampling operation; and the pipeline including circuitry to joi...