US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 12 for "Ray tracing of displaced micro meshes using a bounding prism hierarchy" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,449, issued on May 12, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ray tracing of displaced micro meshes using a bounding prism hierarchy" was invented by Holger Gruen (Munich), David Ronald Oldcorn (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and David Kirk McAllister (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for rendering a scene using ray tracing are provided which include prior to ray tracing any frame of the scene: generating, for each frame, a low resolution mesh from a high resolution mesh representing objects in the scene, the low resolution mesh comprising a plurality of micro-meshes ea...