US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus and method for throttling a ray tracing pipeline" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,908, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for throttling a ray tracing pipeline" was invented by Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco), Abhishek Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Vasanth Ranganathan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.) and Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for stack throttling. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: execution circuitry comprising a plurality of functional units to execute a plurality of ray shaders and generate a plurality of primary rays and a corresponding plural...