US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Simplified low-precision ray intersection through accelerated hierarchy structure precomputation" (American, Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,466, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Simplified low-precision ray intersection through accelerated hierarchy structure precomputation" was invented by Andrew Erin Kensler (Bellevue, Wash.), Sean Keely (Austin, Texas), Michael John Livesley (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and David William John Pankratz (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for rendering objects using ray tracing are provided which include during a build time: generating an accelerated hierarchy structure comprising data representing an approx...