US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 19 for "Lossy geometry compression using interpolated normals for use in BVH building and rendering" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,994, issued on May 19, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lossy geometry compression using interpolated normals for use in BVH building and rendering" was invented by Holger Gruen (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for rendering objects using ray tracing are provided which include generating a low resolution version of a high resolution mesh representing objects in the scene, determining points on curved surfaces of curved surface patches defined for one of triangles and bi-linear quadrangles of the low resolution version of the high resolution mesh, performing ray intersection ...