US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Building an acceleration structure for use in ray tracing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,204, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Building an acceleration structure for use in ray tracing" was invented by Gregory Clark (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Bruno Char (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of building an acceleration structure for use in ray tracing includes (i) assigning, in a memory, a different one or more blocks of memory to each of a plurality of threads, each of the blocks of memory comprising one or more memory locations; (ii) for each element of a plurality of elements of a scene for whic...