US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Temporal and spatial coherence in ray tracing" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,839, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Temporal and spatial coherence in ray tracing" was invented by Martin Jon Irwin Fuller (Gaydon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ray trace operation includes tracing a ray from an origin point in accordance with a ray path into a virtual environment (where the virtual environment comprises one or more virtual objects defined by one or more object components) and determining an intersected object component of the one or more object components that the ray intersects with. Determining the intersected object component comprises ...