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Peter Nelson — 22 Patents

NVIDIA: 18 patents #351 of 7,811Top 5%
Caterpillar: 3 patents #2,186 of 8,398Top 30%
San Francisco, CA: #1,674 of 26,999 inventorsTop 7%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Peter Nelson has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in July 2025. Peter Nelson ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Peter Nelson in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox 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., James Robertson, John Burgess 2025-07-08
12271765 Techniques for efficiently synchronizing multiple program threads Ajay Sudarshan Tirumala, Olivier Giroux, Gary M. Tarolli, Ankita Upreti, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos +2 more 2025-04-08
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 Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., James Robertson, John Burgess 2024-03-12 $2,816,888,000
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
11455768 Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., 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
11061741 Techniques for efficiently performing data reductions in parallel processing units Olivier Giroux, Ajay Sudarshan Tirumala 2021-07-13 $785,700,000
10977037 Techniques for comprehensively synchronizing execution threads Ajay Sudarshan Tirumala, Olivier Giroux, Jack Choquette 2021-04-13 $1,177,712,000
10885698 Method for programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., James Robertson, John Burgess 2021-01-05 $1,432,176,000
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
10817295 Thread-level sleep in a multithreaded architecture Olivier Giroux, Jack Choquette, Ajay Sudarshan Tirumala 2020-10-27 $479,927,000
10810785 Method for forward progress tree traversal mechanisms in hardware Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., James Robertson, John Burgess 2020-10-20 $939,712,000
10437593 Techniques for comprehensively synchronizing execution threads Ajay Sudarshan Tirumala, Olivier Giroux, Jack Choquette 2019-10-08
10241798 Technique for reducing voltage droop by throttling instruction issue rate Peter Sommers, Aniket Naik, John H. Edmondson 2019-03-26 $184,020,000
10067768 Execution of divergent threads using a convergence barrier Gregory Diamos, Richard Craig Johnson, Vinod Grover, Olivier Giroux, Jack Choquette +3 more 2018-09-04 $382,341,000
9836878 System, method, and computer program product for processing primitive specific attributes generated by a fast geometry shader Ziyad S. Hakura 2017-12-05 $285,547,000
9430242 Throttling instruction issue rate based on updated moving average to avoid surges in DI/DT Jack Choquette, Olivier Giroux 2016-08-30 $51,640,000
5365803 Steering and transmission shifting control device Craig B. Kelley, David E. Nelson 1994-11-22 $7,888,000
5280955 Construction for a rollover protection structure Leo Chuzhoy, Anthony F. Cieszkiewicz, Steven D. Jones, David E. Nelson 1994-01-25 $26,011,000
5273340 Cab assembly Craig B. Kelley 1993-12-28 $11,501,000
4437265 Safety guard Jerome Turro 1984-03-20