ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,726, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hierarchical tiling mechanism" was invented by Subramaniam Maiyuran (Gold River, Calif.), Jorge F. Garcia Pabon (Folsom, Calif.), Raghavendra Kamath Miyar (Bangalore, India), Sudheendra Srivathsa (Bangalore, India), Krishan Malik (Bangalore, India), Narsim Krishna (Bangalore, India), Rajalakshmi Athimoolam (Tamilnadu, India) and Amit Mishra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate graphics rendering is disclosed. The apparatus comprises tiling hardware to perform tile based rendering of objects, including receiving a workl...