US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V. on Jan. 13 for "Direct volume rendering apparatus using segment lighting values" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,951, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V. (Munich).

"Direct volume rendering apparatus using segment lighting values" was invented by Christian Schumann (Bremen, Germany), Valentin Kraft (Bremen, Germany) and Florian Link (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a direct volume rendering apparatus for volume rendering a three-dimensional image data set. For each primary ray (10) of a plurality of primary rays, which traverse through the three-dimensional image data set and meet a respective pixel of a two-dimensional image in a two-dim...