US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus and method for bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) construction with stochastic processing" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,255, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) construction with stochastic processing" was invented by Lorenzo Tessari (Karlsruhe, Germany), Addis Dittebrandt (Karlsruhe, Germany), Michael Doyle (San Jose, Calif.) and Carsten Benthin (Voelklingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for efficiently constructing a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH). For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a primitive sampler to identify a representative subset of input primitives of a graphics scene; bounding volume hierarchy (B...