ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,403, issued on April 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Scalable parallel construction of bounding volume hierarchies" was invented by Ingo Wald (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating a bounding volume hierarchy. The technique includes determining a first set of objects associated with a first node. The technique also includes generating a first plurality of child nodes that are associated with the first node. The technique further includes for each object included in the first set of objects, storing within the object an iden...