ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,037, issued on June 3, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"System and method for real-time ray tracing in a 3D environment" was invented by Heqi Lu (Bordeaux, France), Patrice Hirtzlin (Betton, France), Francois-Louis Tariolle (Liffre, France) and Merwan Achibet (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for rendering a 3D scene are disclosed. A set of parameters for objects in the 3D scene are identified. The objects are grouped based on the identified set of parameters and spatial boundaries for an intermediate structure group of objects based on an object type is determined. An il...