ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,662, issued on June 30, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Formation of bounding volume hierarchies" was invented by Joseph John Davison (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a graphics processor obtains a starting bounding volume hierarchy (BVH), being a data structure comprising nodes representing different 3D regions of space in a modelled environment, the data structure comprising a tree in which the nodes are arranged hierarchically from a root node down to a plurality of leaf nodes, wherein the region modelled by each leaf node encompasses ...