ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,918, issued on May 19, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Computer system for processing pixel data of an image" was invented by Olivier Ferrand (Carry le Rouet, France) and Jean-Francois Link (Trets, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a computer system includes at least one master module configured to process data having a format of N bits, a framebuffer configured to store pixel color component values of an image, the framebuffer having a resolution of N bits, each pixel being coded on P bits in the framebuffer and the pixels being stored one after another in the framebuffer and ...