ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,727, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Apparatus and method for asynchronous ray tracing" was invented by Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco), Saikat Mandal (Sacramento, Calif.) and Michael Norris (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for asynchronous ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) generator to construct a BVH comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes including a root node, a plurality of internal nodes...