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John Burgess — 59 Patents

NVIDIA: 59 patents #45 of 7,811Top 1%
Austin, TX: #336 of 18,064 inventorsTop 2%
Texas: #1,279 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #40,067 of 4,157,543Top 1%
59 Patents All Time
John Burgess has been granted 59 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in December 2025. John Burgess ranks #40,067 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.96%). Patent records list John Burgess in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 59 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511817 Techniques for traversing data employed in ray tracing Gregory MUTHLER 2025-12-30
12475631 Accelerating triangle visibility tests for real-time ray tracing Gregory MUTHLER, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Levi OLIVER, Martin N. Andersson +1 more 2025-11-18
12469203 Efficiency of ray-box tests Gregory MUTHLER, Eric B. Enderton, Nikhil Dixit, John Richard Noel 2025-11-11
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, James Robertson 2025-07-08
12347019 Hardware acceleration for ray tracing primitives that share vertices Gregory MUTHLER, Ian Kwong 2025-07-01
12260486 Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing Gregory MUTHLER, Nikhil Dixit, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Magnus Andersson +2 more 2025-03-25
12249022 Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing Gregory MUTHLER, Nikhil Dixit, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Magnus Andersson +2 more 2025-03-11
12198252 Reducing false positive ray traversal using point degenerate culling Gregory MUTHLER, Magnus Andersson, Ian Kwong, Edward Biddulph 2025-01-14
12198256 Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware Gregory MUTHLER, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr. 2025-01-14
12198255 Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Gregory MUTHLER, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +3 more 2025-01-14
12198251 Reducing false positive ray traversal in a bounding volume hierarchy Gregory MUTHLER, Magnus Andersson, Ian Kwong, Edward Biddulph 2025-01-14
12198253 Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Greg Muthler, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +1 more 2025-01-14
12190435 Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures Gregory MUTHLER 2025-01-07
12159342 Ray tracing hardware acceleration for supporting motion blur and moving/deforming geometry Gregory MUTHLER 2024-12-03 $4,926,866,000
12154214 Generation and traversal of partial acceleration structures for ray tracing Gregory MUTHLER, Magnus Andersson, Timo Tapani Viitanen, Levi OLIVER 2024-11-26 $5,235,116,000
12148088 Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention Greg Muthler, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +1 more 2024-11-19 $5,600,277,000
12124378 Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling Gregory MUTHLER, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. +2 more 2024-10-22 $3,183,661,000
12106423 Reducing false positive ray traversal using ray clipping Gregory MUTHLER, 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 Gregory MUTHLER 2024-08-27 $3,353,757,000
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
12020367 Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space transforms Gregory MUTHLER, James Robertson, Magnus ANDERSON 2024-06-25 $3,728,089,000
11966737 Robust, efficient multiprocessor-coprocessor interface Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Jack Choquette, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ignacio Llamas +2 more 2024-04-23 $1,804,038,000
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, James Robertson 2024-03-12 $2,816,888,000
11854141 Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware Gregory MUTHLER, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr. 2023-12-26 $1,427,257,000
11816783 Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures Gregory MUTHLER 2023-11-14 $1,167,116,000