Carsten Waechter — 14 Patents at NVIDIA

Carsten Waechter has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in September 2025. Carsten Waechter ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Carsten Waechter in Berlin, DE.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12412250	Rendering along a space-filling curve	Alexander Keller, Nikolaus Binder	2025-09-09
12394144	Consistent sampling for spatial hashing	Pascal Gautron	2025-08-19
12347020	Visibility-based environment importance sampling for light transport simulation systems and applications	Pascal Gautron	2025-07-01
10866990	Block-based lossless compression of geometric data	Jaakko T. Lehtinen, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Alexander Keller, Nikolaus Binder +1 more	2020-12-15	$578,527,000
10565781	View-dependant shading normal adaptation	Pascal Gautron, Dietger van Antwerpen, Matthias Raab	2020-02-18	$346,827,000
10074212	Decorrelation of low discrepancy sequences for progressive rendering	Nikolaus Binder	2018-09-11	$558,366,000
9892548	Lighting simulation analysis using light path expressions	Daniel Johannes Seibert, Stefan Radig, Matthias Raab, Lutz Kettner, Alexander Keller +1 more	2018-02-13	$344,474,000
9501865	System, method, and computer program product for determining a quantity of light received by an element of a scene	Pascal Gautron, Marc Droske, Lutz Kettner, Alexander Keller, Nikolaus Binder +1 more	2016-11-22	$127,672,000
8248416	Efficient ray tracing without acceleration data structure	Alexander Keller	2012-08-21
7952583	Quasi-monte carlo light transport simulation by efficient ray tracing	Alexander Keller	2011-05-31
7773088	Simultaneous simulation of markov chains using quasi-monte carlo techniques	Alexander Keller	2010-08-10
7659894	Terminating spatial partition hierarchies by a priori bounding memory	Alexander Keller	2010-02-09
7499053	Real-time precision ray tracing	Alexander Keller	2009-03-03
7495664	Instant ray tracing	Alexander Keller	2009-02-24

Carsten Waechter — 14 Patents

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