US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 15 for "Graphics texture mapping" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,961, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics texture mapping" was invented by Edvard Fielding (Trondheim, Norway) and Rodolfo Luis Jalabert Castellanos (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing a texture sampling operation that uses the results of plural texture filtering operations to provide an overall output sampled texture value in a graphics processing system, it is determined whether a texture filtering operation in the set of plural texture filtering operations that are to be performed to provide the overall output sampled texture value can be at least partial...