ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,235, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Graphics processing" was invented by Richard Edward Bruce (Great Shelford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclose herein is a method of operating a graphics processor when performing ray tracing. During a traversal of the nodes of an acceleration data structure, when a parent node that encompasses multiple child node volumes is encountered, a group of rays is tested against the child node volumes to determine which child nodes may need to be visited next. Rather than simply visiting the nodes based on the order in which they are found to be i...