US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 27 for "Acceleration structures with delta instances" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,731, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Acceleration structures with delta instances" was invented by Konstantin I. Shkurko (Orlando, Fla.), Matthaus G. Chajdas (Munich) and Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a technique for performing ray tracing operations. The technique includes encountering, at a non-leaf node, a pointer to a bottom-level acceleration structure having one or more delta instances; identifying an index associated with the pointer, wherein the index identifies an instance within the bottom-level acceleration structure; ...