US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus and method for ray tracing with shader call graph analysis" (American, Russian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,125, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for ray tracing with shader call graph analysis" was invented by Stanislav Volkov (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Scott Pillow (Folsom, Calif.), Joshua Barczak (Forest Hill, Md.), Konstantin Levit-Gurevich (Kiryat Byalik, Israel) and Igor Surmin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for improving ray tracing efficiency. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: An apparatus comprising: a binary instrumentation engine to perform binary instrumentation of ray tracing shaders and to trace ex...