US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 8 for "Techniques for rendering media using position-free path integrals" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,217, issued on July 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for rendering media using position-free path integrals" was invented by Benedikt Bitterli (Kirkland, Wash.) and Eugene D'eon (Karori, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of a method for rendering one or more graphics images includes sampling one or more directions of light passing through a medium, computing one or more parameters associated with one or more position distributions based on the one or more directions of light, computing a brightness in a direction at which the light exits the medium based on the one or more para...