ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,910, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Graphics processor for rendering images using ray tracing" was invented by Richard Edward Bruce (Great Shelford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a graphics processor comprising: storage; execution circuitry to execute programs to perform graphics processing operations using a ray tracing process to generate a render output representative of a view of a scene; and ray tracing circuitry to trace a ray by performing tests to determine whether the ray may intersect geometry in the scene, the ray tracing circuitry bei...