US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Temporal data structures in a ray tracing architecture" (German, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,629, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Temporal data structures in a ray tracing architecture" was invented by Sven Woop (Volklingen, Germany), Attila Afra (Satu Mare, Sweden), Carsten Benthin (Voelklingen, Germany), Ingo Wald (Salt Lake City) and Johannes Guenther (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing apparatus comprising bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) construction circuitry to perform a spatial analysis and temporal analysis related to a plurality of input primitives and responsively generate a BVH comprising spatial, temporal, and spatial-temporal components that are hie...