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Carsten Benthin — 9 Patents in 2024

Intel: 9 patents #172 of 4,430Top 4%
Großrosseln, DE: #1 of 1 inventorsTop 100%
Overall (2024): #12,152 of 561,600Top 3%
9 Patents 2024

Issued Patents 2024

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12175589 Apparatus and method for cross-instance front-to-back traversal for ray tracing heavily-instanced scenes Ingo Wald, Sven Woop 2024-12-24 $17,261,000
12002145 Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing Sven Woop, Michael Doyle, Sreenivas Kothandaraman, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek R. Appu +8 more 2024-06-04 $24,500,000
11989815 Cluster of scalar engines to accelerate intersection in leaf node Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Philip R. Laws, Scott Janus, Sven Woop 2024-05-21 $18,840,000
11989818 Apparatus and method for efficiently merging bounding volume hierarchy data Sven Woop 2024-05-21 $18,840,000
11922557 Apparatus and method using triangle pairs and shared transformation circuitry to improve ray tracing performance Sven Woop, Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Joshua Barczak, Saikat Mandal 2024-03-05 $29,696,000
11915459 Context-aware compression with quantization of hierarchical transform matrices Carson Brownlee, Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti +1 more 2024-02-27 $28,450,000
11915369 Apparatus and method for performing box queries in ray traversal hardware Karthik Vaidyanathan, Sven Woop 2024-02-27 $28,450,000
11887243 Apparatus and method for efficiently storing ray traversal data Karthik Vaidyanathan, Sven Woop 2024-01-30 $30,721,000
11880928 Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer Scott Janus, Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Alexey Supikov, Gabor Liktor +2 more 2024-01-23 $52,361,000