US Patent Issued to Bolt Graphics on Dec. 9 for "Ray tracing hardware and method" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,011, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Bolt Graphics Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Ray tracing hardware and method" was invented by Darwesh Singh (Minneapolis) and Rufino Olay (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ray tracing system and method of operation comprising one or more memories configured to store data used by the ray tracing system and one or more memory interfaces configured read and or write data to the one or more memories. A ray tracing engine, in communication with the memory via the one or more memory interfaces, comprising one or more ray generation modules configured to generate ray data defining rays. Also part of t...