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2020
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NVIDIA
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Ronald Charles Babich, Jr.
RJ
Ronald Charles Babich, Jr.
— 5 Patents in 2020
NVIDIA
:
5
patents
#63
of
1,172
Top 6%
Murrysville, PA
:
#2
of
41
inventors
Top 5%
Pennsylvania
:
#286
of
7,986
inventors
Top 4%
Overall
(2020):
#31,671
of
565,922
Top 6%
5
Patents 2020
Issued Patents
2020
Showing
1–5
of
5
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
10867429
Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal
Samuli Matias Laine
,
Timo Oskari Aila
,
Tero Tapani Karras
,
Gregory MUTHLER
,
William Parsons Newhall, Jr.
+3 more
2020-12-15
$578,527,000
10825232
Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention
Greg Muthler
,
Tero Tapani Karras
,
Samuli Matias Laine
,
William Parsons Newhall, Jr.
,
John Burgess
+1 more
2020-11-03
$990,785,000
10810785
Method for forward progress tree traversal mechanisms in hardware
Greg Muthler
,
William Parsons Newhall, Jr.
,
Peter Nelson
,
James Robertson
,
John Burgess
2020-10-20
$939,712,000
10740952
Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections
Samuli Matias Laine
,
Tero Tapani Karras
,
Greg Muthler
,
William Parsons Newhall, Jr.
,
Ignacio Llamas
+1 more
2020-08-11
$299,011,000
10580196
Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention
Greg Muthler
,
Tero Tapani Karras
,
Samuli Matias Laine
,
William Parsons Newhall, Jr.
,
John Burgess
+1 more
2020-03-03
$428,067,000
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