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Christopher A. Burns — 36 Patents

Apple: 20 patents #1,639 of 18,612Top 9%
ELEchostar Technologies L.L.C.: 5 patents #68 of 361Top 20%
DLDish Technologies L.L.C.: 4 patents #50 of 197Top 30%
Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
TLTunstall Telecom Limited: 1 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
Austin, TX: #784 of 18,064 inventorsTop 5%
Texas: #2,960 of 125,132 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Christopher A. Burns has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in November 2025. Christopher A. Burns ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Christopher A. Burns in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2022.peak 61992: 1 patents19922014: 4 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 6 patents20222023: 4 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12462467 Hardware acceleration for motion blur with ray tracing 2025-11-04
12405803 Superscalar execution using pipelines that support different precisions Liang-Kai Wang 2025-09-02
12405786 Hardware support for conversion between integer and floating-point data Terence M. Potter, Yoong Chert Foo 2025-09-02
12217350 Node encoding for spatially-organized ray tracing acceleration data structure Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Justin A. Hensley, Luca Iuliano, Jonathan Redshaw 2025-02-04
12217353 Quantized ray intersection testing with definitive hit detection 2025-02-04
12008377 SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registers Liang-Kai Wang, Robert D. Kenney, Terence M. Potter 2024-06-11 $280,845,000
12002190 Primitive testing for ray intersection at multiple precisions Casper Van Benthem 2024-06-04 $189,142,000
11875448 SIMD group formation techniques during ray intersection traversal Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Justin A. Hensley, Jonathan Redshaw 2024-01-16 $257,290,000
11830124 Quantized ray intersection testing with definitive hit detection 2023-11-28 $171,025,000
11734871 Ray intersection testing with quantization and interval representations 2023-08-22 $159,607,000
11676327 Temporal split techniques for motion blur and ray intersection Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Justin A. Hensley, Richard W. Schreyer 2023-06-13 $237,724,000
11645084 SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registers Liang-Kai Wang, Robert D. Kenney, Terence M. Potter 2023-05-09 $324,008,000
11477511 Determining remote control state and user via accelerometer Adam Schafer, Jeremy Mickelsen, Rashmi Hegde 2022-10-18
11436784 SIMD group formation techniques for primitive testing associated with ray intersect traversal Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Justin A. Hensley, Luca Iuliano, Jonathan Redshaw 2022-09-06 $222,166,000
11373360 Grouping techniques for ray intersection traversal Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Justin A. Hensley, Luca Iuliano, Jonathan Redshaw 2022-06-28 $172,717,000
11367242 Ray intersect circuitry with parallel ray testing Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Justin A. Hensley, Luca Iuliano, Jonathan Redshaw 2022-06-21 $223,110,000
11335061 Ray intersection data structure with many-to-many mapping between bounding regions and primitives Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Justin A. Hensley 2022-05-17 $199,476,000
11297185 Systems and methods for conference call system management 2022-04-05
11126439 SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registers Liang-Kai Wang, Robert D. Kenney, Terence M. Potter 2021-09-21 $348,543,000
10678381 Determining handedness on multi-element capacitive devices Jeremy Mickelsen 2020-06-09
10282169 Floating-point multiply-add with down-conversion Liang-Kai Wang, Terence M. Potter, Andrew M. Havlir, Yu Sun, Nicolas X. Pena +1 more 2019-05-07 $85,582,000
10192349 Texture sampling techniques Justin A. Hensley 2019-01-29 $91,346,000
10171924 Systems and methods for audio calibration using acoustic measurements Jeremy Mickelsen 2019-01-01
10008093 Systems, methods and apparatus for determining button degradation of a user input device Brad Bylund, Harold Jaramillo, Paul Langer, Jeremy Mickelsen 2018-06-26
9965892 Rendering tessellated geometry with motion and defocus blur Franz P. Clarberg 2018-05-08 $30,284,000