US Patent Issued to Intel on June 30 for "Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,654, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer" was invented by Scott Janus (Loomis, Calif.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco), Alexey Supikov (San Jose, Calif.), Gabor Liktor (San Francisco), Carsten Benthin (Voelklingen, Germany), Philip Laws (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Doyle (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a beam generator to generate beam data associated with a beam projected in...