US Patent Issued to Arm on May 12 for "Graphics processors" (British, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,462, issued on May 12, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processors" was invented by Per Kristian Kjoll (Trondheim, Norway) and Ahmed Mohamad Abdelmonim Salman (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence of primitives to be rendered is processed using a first, pre-pass operation to determine "visibility" information for the sequence of primitives, that is then used in a second, main pass operation in which fragments for primitives that were processed during the first, pre-pass operation are subjected to a visibility test that uses the visibility information determined during the fir...