US Patent Issued to Adobe on Dec. 9 for "RMIP: fast tessellation-free GPU displacement ray tracing via inversion and oblong bounding simulation" (French, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,012, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"RMIP: fast tessellation-free GPU displacement ray tracing via inversion and oblong bounding simulation" was invented by Theo Thonat (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Tamy Boubekeur (Paris), Iliyan Georgiev (London) and Francois Beaune (Annecy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system generates, based on a displacement bounds data structure and a triangle mesh modeling a surface of a 3D virtual object within a 3D virtual scene, a displaced triangle mesh including one or more displaced surface bounding prisms, each of the one or more displaced surface bounding pri...