ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,390, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Split-based trees for ray tracing" was invented by Leo Hendrik Reyes Lozano (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for generating an accelerated data structure for ray tracing which include generating a first splitting plane at a first location of a space comprising objects represented by geometry, constructing a first level of an accelerated data structure based on portions of the geometry, straddling the first splitting plane, which are classified as located on opposing sides of the first splitting p...