ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,462, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Heuristics enabled tiled rendering" was invented by Ziyad Hakura (San Jose, Calif.), Sriram Venkateshan (Bangalore, India) and Sharad Raj (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments a graphics pipeline includes a logic that can assess whether to enable or disable tiled rendering for sets of graphics primitives. The logic applies one or more rules or heuristics to a set of graphics primitives associated with a frame, and determines whether to enable tiled rendering for that set of graphics primitives if the one or more rules or heuristics ar...