ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,995, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing" was invented by Frank Klaeboe Langtind (Melhus, Norway), Philip Carlos Garcia (Austin, Texas) and Naveen Kumar Singh (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processor is disclosed. A packet processing unit of the graphics processor processes an input packet of primitives by subjecting the input packet to one or more processing operations, and storing data produced by the one or more processing operations in local storage. The packet processing unit stores a corresponding output packet of primitives in memory ...