Inventor-controlled 3D Surfaces, LLC (f/k/a Surface3D LLC) has filed its first litigation, suing Dell (6:21-cv-01107) in the Western District of Texas over the provision of devices (i.e., desktops, laptops, and tablets) that support Microsoft’s DirectX 11 multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs) and “higher 3D graphics technology”. The plaintiff asserts two patents, broadly directed to rendering objects through a graphics processing unit (GPU).