US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 23 for "Generation of tight world space bounding regions" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,607, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Generation of tight world space bounding regions" was invented by David Kirk McAllister (Holladay, Utah), Francois Mathias Robert Demoullin (San Diego) and Alexei Vladimirovich Bourd (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for determining bounding regions for a hierarchical structure for ray tracing. For instance, a process can include obtaining an acceleration data structure, the acceleration data structure including one or more primitives of a scene object. A graph cut can be applied to the acceleration data structure. A set of...