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John Burgess

NVIDIA: 7 patents #24 of 1,237Top 2%
Texas: #509 of 16,780 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (2021): #16,701 of 548,734Top 4%
7 Patents 2021

Issued Patents 2021

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11200725 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Greg Muthler, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +1 more 2021-12-14
11189075 Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Gregory MUTHLER, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +3 more 2021-11-30
11164360 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., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +1 more 2021-11-02
11157414 Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling Greg Muthler, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +2 more 2021-10-26
11138009 Robust, efficient multiprocessor-coprocessor interface Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Jack Choquette, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ignacio Llamas +2 more 2021-10-05
11055097 Dynamically detecting uniformity and eliminating redundant computations to reduce power consumption Gary M. Tarolli, John H. Edmondson, Robert Ohannessian 2021-07-06
10885698 Method for programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson 2021-01-05