US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 24 for "Distributed light transport simulation with efficient ray forwarding" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,300, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Distributed light transport simulation with efficient ray forwarding" was invented by Ingo Wald (Salt Lake City) and Steven Parker (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute node performing a distributed light transport simulation operation on a scene may select another compute node(s) for forwarding of a ray based on determining graphical data assigned to the other compute node(s) has already been intersection-tested using the ray. Thus, the compute node can avoid forwarding the ray when the graphical data has already been processed using the ...