US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus and method for acceleration data structure refit" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,870, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for acceleration data structure refit" was invented by Michael Apodaca (Folsom, Calif.), Carsten Benthin (Voelklingen, Germany), Kai Xiao (San Jose, Calif.), Carson Brownlee (Austin, Texas), Timothy Rowley (Austin, Texas), Joshua Barczak (Timonium, Md.) and Travis Schluessler (Berthoud, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for acceleration data structure refit. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a ray generator to generate a plurality of rays in a first graphics scene; a hierarchical acceleration d...