US Patent Issued to Arm on Aug. 11 for "Graphics processors and graphics processing method that allow an entire group of fragments corresponding to a patch of a render output to be culled at the patch level" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,816, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processors and graphics processing method that allow an entire group of fragments corresponding to a patch of a render output to be culled at the patch level" was invented by Ole Magnus Ruud (Oslo, Norway), Sandeep Kakarlapudi (Trondheim, Norway), Tord Kvestad Oygard (Kirkenes, Norway) and Per Kristian Kjoll (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing tile-based rendering a first, pre-pass operation in which primitives for a tile are processed to determine visibility information, the visibility information being usable to dete...