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Greg Muthler

NVIDIA: 4 patents #78 of 1,237Top 7%
Chapel Hill, NC: #29 of 340 inventorsTop 9%
North Carolina: #397 of 5,924 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (2021): #49,897 of 548,734Top 10%
4 Patents 2021

Issued Patents 2021

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11200725 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more 2021-12-14
11164360 Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more 2021-11-02
11157414 Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +2 more 2021-10-26
10885698 Method for programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess 2021-01-05