US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 9 for "Native sampler feedback technology" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,332, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Native sampler feedback technology" was invented by Daniel Johnston (Portland, Ore.), Yoav Harel (Carmichael, Calif.) and Subhajit Dasgupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for hardware sampler technology that determines mip region dimensions of a feedback map based on a description of the feedback map, identifies accessed texels in a texture based on a view of a resource that is paired with the feedback map, and records the accessed texels in the feedback map based on the mip region dimensions." ...