US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on July 21 for "Intersectable instance nodes for ray tracing acceleration structure nodes" (British, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,642, issued on July 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Intersectable instance nodes for ray tracing acceleration structure nodes" was invented by David William John Pankratz (Markham, Canada), David Kirk McAllister (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Ronald Oldcorn (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Michael John Livesley (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Daniel James Skinner (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for performing ray tracing operations is provided. The technique includes, in a first iteration of a ray traversal tech...