US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 2 for "Vertex index routing for two level primitive batch binning" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,425, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vertex index routing for two level primitive batch binning" was invented by Michael John Livesley (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Vishrut Vaibhav (Orlando, Fla.) and Tad Robert Litwiller (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing rendering operations are disclosed herein. The techniques include in a coarse binning pass, generating a sorted set of draw calls, based on geometry processed through a world space pipeline and vertex indices obtained from an input assembler. The techniques also include initiating a fine b...