ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,499, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Hint for scheduling graphics ray tracing work" was invented by Ali Rabbani Rankouhi (Bushey, Great Britain), Roman Tereshin (San Jose, Calif.), Luca O. Iuliano (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Sheenam Jayaswal (Austin, Texas) and Rohit Kumar Singh (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to graphics processor that support ray tracing. In particular, shader circuitry may be configured to adjust a scheduling priority of a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) group of a shader program based on a hint that the SIMD group has ...