ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,010, issued on May 19, was assigned to Rive Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and method for single-pass path rendering using coverage counting" was invented by Christopher Dalton (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved algorithm and technique for use in interactive graphics is disclosed. The new algorithm works by keeping three values in fast, memoryless pixel local storage for coverage counting (store the current coverage count at the pixel being covered), original framebuffer color (stores the color that was in the framebuffer at the pixel being covered immediately before the current path starts rendering), and the pa...