US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 15 for "Identifying storage for ray tracing" (Swedish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,962, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identifying storage for ray tracing" was invented by Sinh Le Hong Nguyen (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Maximilian Rietmann (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform ray tracing. In at least one embodiment, ray tracing workload is estimated prior to ray tracing simulation based on, for example, less than all data associated with rays to be traced."

The patent was filed on April 8, 2024, under Application No. 18/629,494.

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