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Greg Muthler — 4 Patents in 2023

NVIDIA: 4 patents #97 of 1,492Top 7%
Chapel Hill, NC: #19 of 291 inventorsTop 7%
North Carolina: #345 of 5,783 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (2023): #48,222 of 537,848Top 9%
4 Patents 2023

Issued Patents 2023

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11790595 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 2023-10-17
11704863 Watertight ray triangle intersection Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +3 more 2023-07-18
11675704 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 2023-06-13
11645810 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 2023-05-09