US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Processing fragments which have a shader-dependent property in a graphics processing system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,433, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Processing fragments which have a shader-dependent property in a graphics processing system" was invented by Panagiotis Velentzas (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), John W. Howson (St Albans, Great Britain) and Richard Broadhurst (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and graphics processing units for processing a plurality of fragments in a graphics processing system. A received first fragment is processed by performing an early depth test with hidden surface removal logic using a depth buffer; in respons...