Issued Patents 2020
Showing 1–11 of 11 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10861216 | Ray tracing apparatus and method for memory access and register operations | Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, Johannes Guenther, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall | 2020-12-08 |
| 10832371 | Unified architecture for BVH construction based on hardware pre-sorting and a parallel, reconfigurable clustering array | Michael Doyle, Travis T. Schluessler, Atsuo Kuwahara, Jefferson Amstutz | 2020-11-10 |
| 10762686 | Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer | Scott Janus, Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Alexey Supikov, Carsten Benthin +2 more | 2020-09-01 |
| 10740953 | Early termination in bottom-up acceleration data structure refit | Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Carson Brownlee, Thomas Raoux, Joshua Barczak | 2020-08-11 |
| 10719902 | Thread serialization, distributed parallel programming, and runtime extensions of parallel computing platform | Travis T. Schluessler, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker +5 more | 2020-07-21 |
| 10699475 | Multi-pass apparatus and method for early termination of graphics shading | Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Carson Brownlee | 2020-06-30 |
| 10672175 | Order independent asynchronous compute and streaming for graphics | Devan Burke, Adam T. Lake, Jeffery S. Boles, John H. Feit, Karthik Vaidyanathan +11 more | 2020-06-02 |
| 10649956 | Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage | Altug Koker, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Guei-Yuan Lueh +7 more | 2020-05-12 |
| 10643374 | Positional only shading pipeline (POSH) geometry data processing with coarse Z buffer | Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Atsuo Kuwahara, Hugues Labbe, Sameer Kp +15 more | 2020-05-05 |
| 10614611 | Apparatus and method for implementing bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) operations on tesselation hardware | Carsten Benthin | 2020-04-07 |
| 10580197 | Apparatus and method for hierarchical beam tracing and packet compression in a ray tracing system | Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, Carson Brownlee, Johannes Guenther, Jefferson Amstutz | 2020-03-03 |