US Patent Issued to ARM on June 23 for "Rendering of primitives with pre-pass and fallback operations" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,716, issued on June 23, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Rendering of primitives with pre-pass and fallback operations" was invented by Tord Kvestad Oygard (Kirkenes, Norway) and Sandeep Kakarlapudi (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 in a sequence of primitives for a tile are processed to determine visibility information for the sequence of primitives, the visibility information being usable to determine whether or not fragments for a primitive in the sequence of primitives should subsequently be processed further ...