US Patent Issued to Arm on July 14 for "Graphics processing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,540, issued on July 14, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing" was invented by Daren Croxford (Swaffham Prior, Great Britain), Roberto Lopez Mendez (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Mina Ivanova Dimova (Great Shelford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of operating a graphics processor to process a frame formed of a plurality of regions, the graphics processor comprising at least one execution unit with an associated storage element, the at least one execution unit is operable to process the plurality of regions according to a shading rate for each...