James Robertson — 14 Patents at NVIDIA

James Robertson has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in July 2025. James Robertson ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list James Robertson in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12354212	Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware	Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, John Burgess	2025-07-08
12020367	Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space transforms	Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Magnus ANDERSON	2024-06-25	$3,728,089,000
11928772	Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware	Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, John Burgess	2024-03-12	$2,816,888,000
11768686	Out of order memory request tracking structure and technique	Michael A. Fetterman, Mark Alan Gebhart, Shirish Gadre, Mitchell Bryan Hayenga, Steven James Heinrich +4 more	2023-09-26	$1,489,062,000
11455768	Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware	Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, John Burgess	2022-09-27	$667,647,000
11282261	Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space transforms	Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Magnus Andersson	2022-03-22	$1,114,252,000
10885698	Method for programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware	Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, John Burgess	2021-01-05	$1,432,176,000
10810785	Method for forward progress tree traversal mechanisms in hardware	Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, John Burgess	2020-10-20	$939,712,000
9639466	Control mechanism for fine-tuned cache to backing-store synchronization	Gregory MUTHLER, Hemayet Hossain, Timothy John Purcell, Karan Mehra, Peter B. Holmqvist +1 more	2017-05-02	$52,442,000
9110809	Reducing memory traffic in DRAM ECC mode	Peter B. Holmqvist, Karan Mehra, George R. Lynch, Gregory MUTHLER, Wishwesh Anil Gandhi +1 more	2015-08-18	$8,382,000
8330766	Zero-bandwidth clears	David Kirk McAllister, Steven E. Molnar, Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Emmett M. Kilgariff, Patrick R. Brown +4 more	2012-12-11	$52,378,000
5906845	Flavoring devices	—	1999-05-25
5470601	Container for preparing and using alcoholic extracts	—	1995-11-28
4513123	Sulfur-curable rubber skim stock compositions containing dithiodipropionic acid	Gary L. Day	1985-04-23	$2,003,000

James Robertson — 14 Patents

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