US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on April 7 for "Tile region protection in a graphics processing system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,086, issued on April 7, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Tile region protection in a graphics processing system" was invented by Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Jamie Broome (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing system for performing tile-based rendering of a scene that includes safety-critical elements. The graphics processing system includes a geometry engine configured to, in a geometry processing phase, identify protected tiles that include safety-critical elements; a fragment processing engine configured to, in a fragment proce...