US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 13 for "Grid-based light sampling for ray tracing applications" (American, Finnish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,801, issued on May 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Grid-based light sampling for ray tracing applications" was invented by Jakub Boksansky (Munich), Paula Eveliina Jukarainen (Espoo, Finland) and Christopher Ryan Wyman (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques to incorporate lighting effects into computer-generated graphics. In at least one embodiment, a virtual scene comprising a plurality of lights is rendered by subdividing the virtual area and stored, in a record corresponding to a subdivision of the virtual area, information indicative of one or more lights in the vi...