US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Nov. 3 for "Tile-based immediate mode renderer graphics pipeline with per-tile depth pre-passes" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,323, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tile-based immediate mode renderer graphics pipeline with per-tile depth pre-passes" was invented by Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.) and Dana Schaa (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To render a batch of primitives, an acceleration unit (AU) first partitions a frame to be rendered into two or more tiles. For each primitive of the batch of primitives, the AU then determines whether the primitive is at least partially visible in each tile of the frame. Based on a primitive being at least partially visible in a tile, the...