US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,626, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating" was invented by James A. McCombe (San Francisco), Aaron Dwyer (San Francisco), Luke T. Peterson (San Francisco) and Neils Nesse (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing an acceleration structure provide for subdividing a 3-D scene into a plurality of volumetric portions, which have different sizes, each being addressable using a multipart address indicating a location and a relative size of each volumetric portion. A ...