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Greg Muthler — 20 Patents

NVIDIA: 20 patents #308 of 7,811Top 4%
Chapel Hill, NC: #177 of 1,999 inventorsTop 9%
North Carolina: #2,313 of 45,564 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Greg Muthler has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2020 and the most recent in July 2025. Greg Muthler ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Greg Muthler in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

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Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12354212 Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess 2025-07-08
12198253 Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more 2025-01-14
12148088 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more 2024-11-19 $5,600,277,000
12067669 Watertight ray triangle intersection Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +3 more 2024-08-20 $4,637,133,000
11928772 Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess 2024-03-12 $2,816,888,000
11790595 Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more 2023-10-17 $613,841,000
11704863 Watertight ray triangle intersection Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +3 more 2023-07-18 $978,332,000
11675704 Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +2 more 2023-06-13 $1,082,861,000
11645810 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more 2023-05-09 $801,053,000
11455768 Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess 2022-09-27 $667,647,000
11328472 Watertight ray triangle intersection Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +3 more 2022-05-10 $586,550,000
11200725 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more 2021-12-14 $3,211,150,000
11164360 Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more 2021-11-02 $945,866,000
11157414 Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +2 more 2021-10-26 $877,249,000
10885698 Method for programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess 2021-01-05 $1,432,176,000
10825232 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more 2020-11-03 $990,785,000
10825230 Watertight ray triangle intersection Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +3 more 2020-11-03 $990,785,000
10810785 Method for forward progress tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess 2020-10-20 $939,712,000
10740952 Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more 2020-08-11 $299,011,000
10580196 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more 2020-03-03 $428,067,000