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Gregory MUTHLER — 36 Patents

NVIDIA: 36 patents #129 of 7,811Top 2%
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
Gregory MUTHLER has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in December 2025. Gregory MUTHLER ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Gregory MUTHLER in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511817 Techniques for traversing data employed in ray tracing John Burgess 2025-12-30
12475631 Accelerating triangle visibility tests for real-time ray tracing John Burgess, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Levi OLIVER, Martin N. Andersson +1 more 2025-11-18
12469203 Efficiency of ray-box tests John Burgess, Eric B. Enderton, Nikhil Dixit, John Richard Noel 2025-11-11
12347019 Hardware acceleration for ray tracing primitives that share vertices John Burgess, Ian Kwong 2025-07-01
12260486 Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing John Burgess, Nikhil Dixit, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Magnus Andersson +2 more 2025-03-25
12249022 Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing John Burgess, Nikhil Dixit, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Magnus Andersson +2 more 2025-03-11
12198255 Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +3 more 2025-01-14
12198256 Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware John Burgess, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr. 2025-01-14
12198252 Reducing false positive ray traversal using point degenerate culling John Burgess, Magnus Andersson, Ian Kwong, Edward Biddulph 2025-01-14
12198251 Reducing false positive ray traversal in a bounding volume hierarchy John Burgess, Magnus Andersson, Ian Kwong, Edward Biddulph 2025-01-14
12190435 Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures John Burgess 2025-01-07
12159342 Ray tracing hardware acceleration for supporting motion blur and moving/deforming geometry John Burgess 2024-12-03 $4,926,866,000
12154214 Generation and traversal of partial acceleration structures for ray tracing John Burgess, Magnus Andersson, Timo Tapani Viitanen, Levi OLIVER 2024-11-26 $5,235,116,000
12124378 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 2024-10-22 $3,183,661,000
12106423 Reducing false positive ray traversal using ray clipping John Burgess, Magnus Andersson, Ian Kwong, Edward Biddulph 2024-10-01 $16,732,263,000
12073504 Hardware-based techniques applicable for ray tracing for efficiently representing and processing an arbitrary bounding volume John Burgess 2024-08-27 $3,353,757,000
12020367 Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space transforms John Burgess, James Robertson, Magnus ANDERSON 2024-06-25 $3,728,089,000
11966737 Robust, efficient multiprocessor-coprocessor interface Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess, Jack Choquette, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine +2 more 2024-04-23 $1,804,038,000
11854141 Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware John Burgess, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr. 2023-12-26 $1,427,257,000
11816783 Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures John Burgess 2023-11-14 $1,167,116,000
11804002 Techniques for traversing data employed in ray tracing John Burgess 2023-10-31 $955,503,000
11804000 Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +3 more 2023-10-31 $955,503,000
11663770 Hardware-based techniques applicable for ray tracing for efficiently representing and processing an arbitrary bounding volume John Burgess 2023-05-30 $1,391,470,000
11508112 Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware John Burgess, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr. 2022-11-22 $615,333,000
11450057 Hardware acceleration for ray tracing primitives that share vertices John Burgess, Ian Kwong 2022-09-20 $710,696,000