ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,819, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Ray offsetting for numerical imprecision compensation in content generation systems and applications" was invented by Dirk Gerrit van Antwerpen (Berlin), Carsten Alexander Waechter (Berlin) and Oliver Klehm (Braunschweig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein provide for the reduction in artifacts in image data rendered using ray or path tracing, such as may be due to self-intersections with scene geometry. In at least one embodiment, an appropriate offset value is automatically determined that is to be applied to the spawn point...