US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Graphics processing system and method of rendering" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,301, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing system and method of rendering" was invented by Enrique de Lucas (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of rendering a scene formed by primitives in a graphics processing system. For a sequence of primitives, a pipeline fragment shading rate value and a primitive fragment shading rate value for a primitive are combined to produce a combined fragment shading rate value for the primitive. Fragment shading rate data representing the combined fragment shading rate value for the primitiv...