Ian Kwong — 12 Patents at NVIDIA

Ian Kwong has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in July 2025. Ian Kwong ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Ian Kwong in San Jose, CA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12347019	Hardware acceleration for ray tracing primitives that share vertices	Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess	2025-07-01
12198252	Reducing false positive ray traversal using point degenerate culling	Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Magnus Andersson, Edward Biddulph	2025-01-14
12198251	Reducing false positive ray traversal in a bounding volume hierarchy	Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Magnus Andersson, Edward Biddulph	2025-01-14
12106423	Reducing false positive ray traversal using ray clipping	Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Magnus Andersson, Edward Biddulph	2024-10-01	$16,732,263,000
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
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
11450057	Hardware acceleration for ray tracing primitives that share vertices	Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess	2022-09-20	$710,696,000
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
11150721	Providing hints to an execution unit to prepare for predicted subsequent arithmetic operations	David C. Tannenbaum, Ming Y. Siu, Stuart F. Oberman, Colin Sprinkle, Srinivasan Iyer	2021-10-19	$1,137,231,000
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
9829956	Approach to power reduction in floating-point operations	David C. Tannenbaum, Colin Sprinkle, Stuart F. Oberman, Ming Y. Siu, Srinivasan Iyer	2017-11-28	$39,910,000
9477482	System, method, and computer program product for implementing multi-cycle register file bypass	Xiaogang Qiu, Ming Y. Siu, Jack Choquette, Michael A. Fetterman	2016-10-25	$29,021,000

Ian Kwong — 12 Patents

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