US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Color state techniques for graphics processors" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,233, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Color state techniques for graphics processors" was invented by Terence M. Potter (Austin, Texas), Yoong Chert Foo (London) and William V. Miller (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to storage techniques for fragment data. In some embodiments, one or more storage circuits are configured to store sample color data for processing by shader processors including a data structure that includes first and second elements configured to store color data for first and second colors, respectively. In some embodiments, control ci...