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Carson Brownlee — 23 Patents

Intel: 23 patents #1,732 of 30,777Top 6%
Austin, TX: #1,404 of 18,064 inventorsTop 8%
Texas: #5,758 of 125,132 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Carson Brownlee has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in February 2025. Carson Brownlee ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Carson Brownlee in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12236519 Apparatus and method for ray tracing instruction processing and execution Karthik Vaidyanathan, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Carsten Benthin, Kai Xiao +1 more 2025-02-25
12229870 Apparatus and method for acceleration data structure refit Michael Apodaca, Carsten Benthin, Kai Xiao, Timothy Rowley, Joshua Barczak +1 more 2025-02-18
11915459 Context-aware compression with quantization of hierarchical transform matrices Carsten Benthin, Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti +1 more 2024-02-27 $28,450,000
11900523 Early termination in bottom-up acceleration data structure refit Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Joshua Barczak, Gabor Liktor 2024-02-13 $18,546,000
11568591 Apparatus and method for ray tracing instruction processing and execution Karthik Vaidyanathan, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Carsten Benthin, Kai Xiao +1 more 2023-01-31 $11,941,000
11562468 Apparatus and method for efficient distributed denoising of a graphics frame Ingo Wald, Attila Tamas Afra, Johannes Guenther, Jefferson Amstutz, Carsten Benthin 2023-01-24 $19,543,000
11527035 Real time ray tracing (RTRT)-based adaptive multi-frequency shading (AMFS) Gabor Liktor, Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux 2022-12-13 $11,573,000
11501484 Apparatus and method for acceleration data structure refit Michael Apodaca, Carsten Benthin, Kai Xiao, Timothy Rowley, Joshua Barczak +1 more 2022-11-15 $16,955,000
11436785 Apparatus and method for hierarchical beam tracing and packet compression in a ray tracing system Ingo Wald, Gabor Liktor, Carsten Benthin, Johannes Guenther, Jefferson Amstutz 2022-09-06 $12,766,000
11335035 Context-aware compression with quantization of hierarchical transform matrices Carsten Benthin, Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti +1 more 2022-05-17 $14,251,000
11158111 Early termination in bottom-up acceleration data structure refit Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Joshua Barczak, Gabor Liktor 2021-10-26 $21,268,000
11106274 Adjusting graphics rendering based on facial expression Travis T. Schluessler, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski +10 more 2021-08-31 $22,590,000
11069123 Cloud-based realtime raytracing Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Philip R. Laws, Thomas Raoux +1 more 2021-07-20 $44,320,000
11004252 Real time ray tracing (RTRT)-based adaptive multi-frequency shading (AMFS) Gabor Liktor, Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux 2021-05-11 $38,242,000
10977853 Apparatus and method for hierarchical beam tracing and packet compression in a ray tracing system Ingo Wald, Gabor Liktor, Carsten Benthin, Johannes Guenther, Jefferson Amstutz 2021-04-13 $58,007,000
10922790 Apparatus and method for efficient distributed denoising of a graphics frame Ingo Wald, Attila Tamas Afra, Johannes Guenther, Jefferson Amstutz, Carsten Benthin 2021-02-16 $35,223,000
10762668 Context-aware compression with quantization of hierarchical transform matrices Carsten Benthin, Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti +1 more 2020-09-01 $24,773,000
10755469 Apparatus and method for ray tracing instruction processing and execution Karthik Vaidyanathan, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Carsten Benthin, Kai Xiao +1 more 2020-08-25 $27,661,000
10740953 Early termination in bottom-up acceleration data structure refit Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Joshua Barczak, Gabor Liktor 2020-08-11 $37,011,000
10699475 Multi-pass apparatus and method for early termination of graphics shading Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Gabor Liktor 2020-06-30 $33,333,000
10591971 Adaptive multi-resolution for graphics Travis T. Schluessler, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski +12 more 2020-03-17 $21,927,000
10580197 Apparatus and method for hierarchical beam tracing and packet compression in a ray tracing system Ingo Wald, Gabor Liktor, Carsten Benthin, Johannes Guenther, Jefferson Amstutz 2020-03-03 $18,388,000
10204441 Apparatus and method for hierarchical beam tracing and packet compression in a ray tracing system Ingo Wald, Gabor Liktor, Carsten Benthin, Johannes Guenther, Jefferson Amstutz 2019-02-12 $25,597,000