US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Methods and hardware logic for loading ray tracing data into a shader processing unit of a graphics processing unit" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,812, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Methods and hardware logic for loading ray tracing data into a shader processing unit of a graphics processing unit" was invented by Daniel Barnard (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shader processing units for a graphics processing unit that are configured to execute one or more ray tracing shaders that process ray data associated with one or more rays. The ray data for a ray includes a plurality of ray data elements. The shader processing unit comprises storage, and load logic. The load logic is configure...