ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,090, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Reducing redundant rendering in a graphics system" was invented by John W. Howson (St. Albans, Great Britain), Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain) and Maurizio Zucchelli (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A render is performed using a tile-based graphics pipeline where a rendering space is sub-divided into tiles. Primitives are received that were processed by a geometry processing stage of the graphics pipeline and are grouped into sets, and a primitive block is generated from each set. Primitive block...