US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 12 for "Discrete rotations for oriented bounding boxes based on platonic solids" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,448, issued on May 12, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Discrete rotations for oriented bounding boxes based on platonic solids" was invented by Michael Alexander Kern (Munich), Matthaus G. Chajdas (Munich) 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 arriving at a bounding box of a bounding volume hierarchy ("BVH") having an orientation defined based on a platonic solid; testing a ray for intersection with the bounding box; and continuing traversal of the BVH based on result...