ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,623, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Maxon Computer GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Enhanced guiding for converging denoisers" was invented by Lucian Petrescu (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments generally relate to enhancing a quality of denoising in a real-time pathtracer. A pathtracer can implement a Monte-Carlo process, which can require many samples to converge to an error-acceptable result. Denoisers are often used in real-time (or near real-time), in order to accelerate the convergence process. The present embodiments further comprise systems and methods relating to an adaptive guidance...