US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Intersection testing in a ray tracing system using offset intersection distances" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,205, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Intersection testing in a ray tracing system using offset intersection distances" was invented by Peter Smith-Lacey (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Simon Fenney (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Gregory Clark (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Rostam King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an intersection testing module for performing intersection testing in a ray tracing system determines a first offset intersection distance which is equal to a sum of an intersection distance at which a ray inte...