ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,844, issued on April 14, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Graphics processor" was invented by Olof Henrik Uhrenholt (Lomma, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tile-based graphics processor performs first and second processing passes to generate a render output. The first processing pass generates and writes out information representative of a set of bounding boxes, and the second processing pass uses the bounding box information to determine which primitives to process for which rendering tiles."
The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/398,645.
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