US Patent Issued to Arm on Oct. 27 for "Graphics processing with optionally deferred geometry processing" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,994, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing with optionally deferred geometry processing" was invented by Frank Klaeboe Langtind (Melhus, Norway) and Anders Markus Kugler (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When executing a tile-based graphics processing pipeline, one or more geometry processing stages of a sequence of one or more geometry processing stages of the graphics processing pipeline generate packets storing data for geometry to be processed. For each packet, it is determined whether to defer some geometry processing until a rendering stage. When it is determ...