US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,732, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing" was invented by Sven Woop (Voelklingen, Germany), Michael J. Doyle (San Jose, Calif.), Sreenivas Kothandaraman (Sammamish, Wash.), Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Carsten Benthin (Voelklingen, Germany), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Holger Gruen (Peissenberg, Germany), Stephen Junkins (Bend, Ore.), Adam Lake (Portland, Ore.), Bret G. Alfieri (Forest Grove, Ore.), Gabor Liktor (San Francisco), Joshua Barczak (Timonium, Md.) and Won-Jong Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.).

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