US Patent Issued to Arm on Oct. 27 for "Rendering of primitives with pre-pass and fallback operations" (Norwegian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,091, issued on Oct. 27, 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), Wing-Tsi Henry Wong (Lund, Sweden), Ole Magnus Ruud (Oslo, Norway) and Per Kristian Kjoll (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 t...