US Patent Issued to Arm on Aug. 4 for "Graphics processing using bounding volumes for ray tracing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,166, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing using bounding volumes for ray tracing" was invented by Richard Edward Bruce (Great Shelford, Great Britain) and Alexander James Westby (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing ray tracing in a graphics processing system a ray tracing acceleration data structure comprising nodes having associated bounding volumes is provided for use when determining a sub-triangle of a displacement micromapped triangular primitive that may be intersected by a ray. The bounding volumes of the nodes of the ray tracing accelera...