US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 25 for "Spatial test of bounding volumes for rasterization" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,494, issued on March 25, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Spatial test of bounding volumes for rasterization" was invented by Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.) and Matthaeus G. Chajdas (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving a scene description, a processing system generates a set of planes in the scene and a bounding volume representing a partition of the scene. Using the set of planes in the scene, a compute unit of an accelerated processing unit performs a spatial test on the bounding volume to determine whether the bounding volume intersects one or more planes o...