US Patent Issued to Nvidia on June 24 for "Content generation systems and applications using octree-based spatial databases" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,899, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Content generation systems and applications using octree-based spatial databases" was invented by Dominic Robert Humphrey (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein provide for the generation and maintenance of a minimally-sized octree (or other spatial representation) for an arbitrary or dynamic dataset. An octree representation allows for efficient real-time querying of dynamic content, where such a spatial database can scale from a single machine to multiple machines. Objects in a scene can be stored to the spatial database...