US Patent Issued to Adobe on May 12 for "Displacement-centric acceleration for ray tracing" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,446, issued on May 12, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Displacement-centric acceleration for ray tracing" was invented by Theo Thonat (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Xin Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tamy Boubekeur (Paris), Nathan Carr (San Jose, Calif.) and Francois Beaune (Annecy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and features of the present disclosure provide a direct ray tracing operator with a low memory footprint for surfaces enriched with displacement maps. A graphics editing application can be used to manipulate displayed representations of a 3D object that include surfaces with displacement textures. T...