ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,855, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Think Silicon Research and Technology Single Member S.A. (Rion Achaias, Greece).

"System and method for memory bandwidth reduction using a programmable cache line" was invented by Chrysa Kokkala (Patras, Greece), Nikolaos Mitas (Patras, Greece), Iakovos Stamoulis (Patras, Greece) and Georgios Keramidas (Patras, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for memory bandwidth reduction utilized a programmable cache line. The method includes generating an instruction to render a modified texture based on a modification of a texture, the texture stored as a plurality of lines in a memo...