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John Burgess — 7 Patents in 2021

NVIDIA: 7 patents #24 of 1,237Top 2%
Austin, TX: #132 of 3,164 inventorsTop 5%
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-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
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 $3,211,150,000
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 $3,529,312,000
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 $945,866,000
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 $877,249,000
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 $1,073,859,000
11055097 Dynamically detecting uniformity and eliminating redundant computations to reduce power consumption Gary M. Tarolli, John H. Edmondson, Robert Ohannessian 2021-07-06 $1,403,739,000
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 $1,432,176,000