ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,890, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Technique for generating a bounding volume hierarchy" was invented by Leo Hendrik Reyes Lozano (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for building a bounding volume hierarchy is disclosed. The technique includes for a subject node, selecting a dimension along which to perform a split to form child nodes of the subject node; assigning primitives of the subject node to the child nodes; and updating bounds for the child nodes in a next split dimension and not in the other dimensions."
The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2023, ...