ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,191, issued on July 28, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Mapping multi-dimensional coordinates to a 1D space" was invented by Tijmen Spreij (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for mapping N coordinates to a 1D space receives N input bit-strings representing respective coordinates, which can be of different sizes; produces a grouped bit-string therefrom, in which the bits, including non-data bits, are grouped into groups of bits originating from the same bit position per group; and demultiplexes this into n=1.. N demultiplexed bit-strings, and sends each ...