US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and method for routing data from ray tracing cache banks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,819, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for routing data from ray tracing cache banks" was invented by Michael Norris (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.) and Karthik Vaidyanathan (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: ray traversal hardware logic to perform traversal operations to traverse rays through a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) comprising a plurality of BVH nodes, the ray traversal hardware logic comprising a plurality of traversal storage banks ...