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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,938, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing texture processing operations in a graphics processing system, for a texture processing operation that requires M input texture data elements from an array of texture data elements, each of the M texture data elements is selected from a different set of texture data elements having a different set of positions within the texture data array. ...