US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 14 for "Adaptive ray tracing suitable for shadow rendering" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,550, issued on July 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive ray tracing suitable for shadow rendering" was invented by Jonathan Paul Story (Grafrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, the number of rays used to sample lighting conditions of a light source in a virtual environment with respect to particular locations in the virtual environment may be adapted to scene conditions. An additional ray(s) may be used for locations that tend to be associated with visual artifacts in rendered images. A determination may be made on whether to cast an additional ray(s) to a light source for a location...