US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Intersection testing in a ray tracing system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,904, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Intersection testing in a ray tracing system" 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 that a difference between an intersection distance at which a ray intersects a first primitive and an intersection distance at which the ray i...