US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Intersection testing in a ray tracing system using scaled ray components" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,206, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Intersection testing in a ray tracing system using scaled ray components" was invented by Rostam King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and intersection testing module are provided in a ray tracing system for determining whether a ray intersects a 3D axis-aligned box. The box represents a volume defined by a front-facing plane and a back-facing plane for each of the dimensions of the three-dimensional axis-aligned box. Scaled ray components are determined, wherein a third scaled ray component equa...