US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Multiple precision level intersection testing in a ray tracing system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,909, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Multiple precision level intersection testing in a ray tracing system" was invented by Gregory Clark (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain), Steven J. Clohset (San Francisco), Luke T. Peterson (San Francisco), Naser Sedaghati (Columbus, Ohio) and Ali Rabbani (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ray-tracing system for performing intersection testing includes a tester module for testing rays for intersection with a volume, the tester module receiving a packet of one or more rays to be tested for intersection with the vo...