US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 19 for "Global illumination using shared lighting contributions for interactions in path tracing" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,037, issued on May 19, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Global illumination using shared lighting contributions for interactions in path tracing" was invented by Jacopo Pantaleoni (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed approaches provide for interactions of secondary rays of light transport paths in a virtual environment to share lighting contributions when determining lighting conditions for a light transport path. Interactions may be shared based on similarities in characteristics (e.g., hit locations), which may define a region in which interactions may share lighting condition data. The region may cor...