US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Z-clipping for primitive samples" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,661, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Z-clipping for primitive samples" was invented by Tao Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiayang Zhao (San Diego), Huaibing Zhu (San Diego), Ruohong Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jian Liang (San Diego), Junmei Shao (San Diego) and Qinyu Chen (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., GPU. The apparatus may obtain an indication of a set of primitives for a draw call operation. The apparatus may also identify a subset of primitives in the set of primitives, each of the subset...