ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,602, issued on July 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Three-dimensional cluster simulation on GPU-less systems" was invented by Subhajit Paul (Bangalore, India), Nikhil Nandkishor Devshatwar (Bangalore, India), Santhana Bharathi N (Tamil, India) and Shravan Karthik (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that simulates effects of displaying assets using a graphical processing unit (GPU) is provided. The method includes extracting preprocessed assets, the assets having been preprocessed offline to provide simulated GPU graphical effects, isolating dynamic assets from static assets from the preproc...