US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 23 for "Ray tracing using reservoir resampling with spatial shift-mapping" (Chinese, American, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,906, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ray tracing using reservoir resampling with spatial shift-mapping" was invented by Yaobin Ouyang (Shanghai), Nan Lin (Shanghai), Jacopo Pantaleoni (Berlin), Markus Kettunen (Urdorf, Switzerland) and Shiqiu Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques to render images with global illumination using efficient ray tracing, light source identification, and reservoir resampling that deploys temporal and spatial reservoirs."

The patent was filed on March 18, 2024, under Application No. 18/607,901.

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