US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Precomputed topology for realtime ray tracing" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,252, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Precomputed topology for realtime ray tracing" was invented by Martin Jon Irwin Fuller (Warwickshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configurable to access a precomputed topology associated with a mesh that comprises a plurality of object components. The precomputed topology defines a plurality of object component groups that each comprise a respective set of object components of the mesh. The system is configurable to determine a traversal likelihood metric associated with the mesh that indicates a likelihood that ...