US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Performing comparison operations using vector floating point values" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,548, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Performing comparison operations using vector floating point values" was invented by Rostam King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Peter Smith-Lacey (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particular comparison operation in ray tracing is performed using floating point values received in scalar format. The received values are promoted to vector format, wherein the received floating point values are used as a first component of vector floating point values. A second component of the vector floating point val...