US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 27 for "Apparatus and method for intra-BVH level-of-detail selection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,089, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for intra-BVH level-of-detail selection" was invented by Gabor Liktor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for intra-BVH level-of-detail (LoD) selection. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: a ray generator to generate a ray to be traversed through a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) including at least one multi-level-of-detail (multi LoD) node comprising a first child node associated with a first LoD and a second child node associated with a second LoD; traversal hardware logic to tra...