US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Primitive processing in a graphics processing system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,837, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Primitive processing in a graphics processing system" was invented by Jonathan Redshaw (St. Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing system has a rendering space which is divided into tiles. Primitives within the tiles are processed to perform hidden surface removal and to apply texturing to the primitives. The graphics processing system includes a plurality of depth buffers, thereby allowing a processing module to process primitives of one tile by accessing one of the depth buffers while primitive ...