ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,656, issued on June 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Technique for generating a bounding volume hierarchy" was invented by John Alexandre Tsakok (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for building a bounding volume hierarchy is disclosed. The technique subdividing a candidate box node based on a resolution to generate a plurality of cells of the candidate box node; identifying a plurality of nodes of a triangle set collection that fit within the cells; generating a plurality of candidate splits based on the plurality of nodes; selecting a candidate split based on a selec...