ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,538, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Hybrid stochastic layered alpha blending" was invented by Michael Seth Monger (Burien, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for generating a rendering output using a hybrid stochastic layered alpha blending technique. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the method may include receiving a plurality of fragments for rendering into a composited output. The method may further include storing a set of fragments of the plurality of fragments for each pixel in a fragment buffer up to a per pixel fragment buffer limit. For each received f...