US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 25 for "Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing" (American, Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,486, issued on March 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing" was invented by John Burgess (Austin, Texas), Gregory Muthler (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Nikhil Dixit (Austin, Texas), Henry Moreton (Woodside, Calif.), Yury Uralsky (Los Gatos, Calif.), Magnus Andersson (Lund, Sweden), Marco Salvi (Seattle) and Christoph Kubisch (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Displaced Micro-mesh (DMM) primitive enables high complexity geometry for ray and path tracing while minimizing the associated builder costs and preserving high efficiency. A structured, hierarchical repre...