US Patent Issued to Glenfly Tech on July 14 for "Texture sampling method and apparatus based on merge processing of texel requests" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,542, issued on July 14, was assigned to Glenfly Tech Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Texture sampling method and apparatus based on merge processing of texel requests" was invented by Jing Feng (Shanghai), Ziwen Zhu (Shanghai), Pengcheng Yu (Shanghai) and Lihao Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a texture sampling method and apparatus based on merge processing of texel requests. The present disclosure merges target texel requests in the same cache line together, which reduces the number of cache hit tests. A pressure on the cache of next level to process texel requests may be significantly reduced, ...