US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and method for accelerating BVH builds by merging bounding boxes" (American, Polish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,606, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for accelerating BVH builds by merging bounding boxes" was invented by Carsten Benthin (Volklingen, Germany), Radoslaw Drabinski (Gdansk, Poland), Michael Doyle (San Jose, Calif.) and Joshua Barczak (Forest Hill, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for accelerating bounding box merge operations. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: ray tracing acceleration hardware to be used to determine ray traversal results when traversing a ray through a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH), the BVH comprising a plural...