US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,467, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems" was invented by John W. Howson (St. Albans, Great Britain), Steven J. Clohset (San Francisco) and Ali Rabbani (Watford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ray tracing unit implemented in a graphics rendering system includes processing logic configured to perform ray tracing operations on rays, a dedicated ray memory coupled to the processing logic and configured to store ray data for rays to be processed by the processing logic, an interface to a memory system, an...