US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 7 for "Lossless compression for multisample render targets alongside fragment compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,067, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lossless compression for multisample render targets alongside fragment compression" was invented by Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Michael J. Norris (Folsom, Calif.) and Eric G. Liskay (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a data processing system having a multisample antialiasing compressor coupled to a texture unit and shader execution array. In one embodiment, the data processing system includes a memory device to store a multisample render target, the multisample render target to...