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David Kirk McAllister — 33 Patents

NVIDIA: 21 patents #288 of 7,811Top 4%
Qualcomm: 10 patents #2,065 of 12,104Top 20%
DLDana Limited: 1 patents #464 of 1,099Top 45%
Holladay, UT: #5 of 159 inventorsTop 4%
Utah: #415 of 19,430 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
David Kirk McAllister has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in December 2025. David Kirk McAllister ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list David Kirk McAllister in Holladay, UT, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12505607 Generation of tight world space bounding regions Francois Mathias Robert Demoullin, Alexei V. Bourd 2025-12-23
12437465 Bounding volume hierarchy leaf node compression David William John Pankratz, David Ronald Oldcorn, Dana Skinner, Michael John Livesley 2025-10-07
12205223 Bounding volume hierarchy leaf node compression 2025-01-21
12159343 Accelerated bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversal for shadow rays Piyush Gupta 2024-12-03 $29,038,000
12100186 Leaf node compression with compressibility prediction Adimulam RAMESH BABU, Srihari Babu Alla 2024-09-24 $33,492,000
12056819 Compressed traversal stack for GPU ray tracing Francois Mathias Robert Demoullin 2024-08-06 $15,639,000
12045928 Ray tracing processor Fei Wei, Alexei V. Bourd 2024-07-23 $12,759,000
11893677 Bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) widening based on node compressibility Adimulam RAMESH BABU, Srihari Babu Alla, Avinash Seetharamaiah, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar 2024-02-06 $12,962,000
11861785 Generation of tight world space bounding regions Francois Mathias Robert Demoullin, Alexei V. Bourd 2024-01-02 $10,990,000
11763523 Compressed THIT stack for hardware-accelerated GPU ray tracing Francois Mathias Robert Demoullin 2023-09-19 $10,581,000
11593990 Storage of levels for bottom level bounding volume hierarchy Adimulam RAMESH BABU, Srihari Babu Alla 2023-02-28 $13,289,000
9607407 Variable-width differential memory compression Jonathan Dunaisky, William Craig McKnight 2017-03-28 $166,161,000
9530189 Alternate reduction ratios and threshold mechanisms for framebuffer compression Jonathan Dunaisky, Steven E. Molnar, Narayan Kulshrestha, Rui M. Bastos, Joseph Detmer +1 more 2016-12-27 $156,812,000
9406149 Selecting and representing multiple compression methods Narayan Kulshrestha, Steven E. Molnar 2016-08-02 $41,366,000
9235512 System, method, and computer program product for graphics processing unit (GPU) demand paging Andreas Dietrich, Heiko Friedrich, Konstantin Vostryakov, Steven Parker, James Bigler +1 more 2016-01-12 $54,126,000
8872824 System, method, and computer program product for performing shadowing utilizing shadow maps and ray tracing Michael Robert Phillips, David Patrick Luebke, Jonathan Cohen, Peter Schuyler Shirley 2014-10-28 $4,694,000
8862823 Compression status caching David B. Glasco, Cass W. Everitt, Emmett M. Kilgariff, George R. Lynch, James Roberts +4 more 2014-10-14 $3,953,000
8670613 Lossless frame buffer color compression Alexandre Joly, Peter C. Tong 2014-03-11 $15,136,000
8605104 Threshold-based lossy reduction color compression Steven E. Molnar, Narayan Kulshrestha 2013-12-10 $3,375,000
8488890 Partial coverage layers for color compression Narayan Kulshrestha, Steven E. Molnar 2013-07-16 $6,509,000
8390645 Method and system for rendering connecting antialiased line segments Franklin C. Crow, John S. Montrym, Craig M. Wittenbrink 2013-03-05 $8,122,000
8330766 Zero-bandwidth clears Steven E. Molnar, Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Emmett M. Kilgariff, Patrick R. Brown, Christian Amsinck +4 more 2012-12-11 $52,378,000
8319783 Index-based zero-bandwidth clears Steven E. Molnar, Peter B. Holmqvist, Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Cass W. Everitt, Emmett M. Kilgariff +2 more 2012-11-27 $4,836,000
8065354 Compression of 16 bit data using predictor values Walter E. Donovan 2011-11-22 $12,461,000
8059131 System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled graphics memory Donald A. Bittel, Steven E. Molnar 2011-11-15 $13,698,000