US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 22 for "Pixel generation technique" (Oregon, California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,838, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pixel generation technique" was invented by Levi Barnes (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Justin Paul Luitjens (Sandy, Utah), Benjamin Frank Pinzone (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kumara Narasimha Sastry Kunigal (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are to convert polygon data into pixels. In at least one embodiment, a processor causes polygon input data to be converted into pixels by using one or more prefix sums to generate one or more winding numbers to indicate whether a pixel is within a polygon."

The patent was filed on J...