ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,302, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Persistent graphics memory for render targets" was invented by Md Wahidul Islam (Folsom, Calif.), Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar (San Diego), Andrew Evan Gruber (Arlington, Mass.), Avinash Seetharamaiah (San Diego), Tao Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brendon Lewis Johnson (San Diego), Thomas Edwin Frisinger (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Zhenbiao Ma (Saratoga, Calif.) and Raghavendra Nagaraj (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may obtain an indicatio...