US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 19 for "Sub-pixel data simulation system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,140, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sub-pixel data simulation system" was invented by Pedro Urbina Escos (Seattle), Dimitrios Lymberopoulos (Kirkland, Wash.), Di Wang (Sammamish, Wash.) and Emanuel Shalev (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device includes a processor configured to simulate a virtual environment based on a set of virtual environment parameters, and perform ray tracing to render a view of the simulated virtual environment. The ray tracing includes generating a plurality of rays for one or more pixels of the rendered view of the simulated...