Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–25 of 52 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12361633 | Using importance resampling to reduce the memory incoherence of light sampling | Christopher Ryan Wyman, Robert A. Alfieri, Peter Schuyler Shirley | 2025-07-15 |
| 12354212 | Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware | Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess | 2025-07-08 |
| 12198255 | Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Gregory MUTHLER, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +3 more | 2025-01-14 |
| 12198256 | Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware | Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. | 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, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more | 2025-01-14 |
| 12148088 | Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention | Greg Muthler, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more | 2024-11-19 |
| 12124378 | Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling | Gregory MUTHLER, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +2 more | 2024-10-22 |
| 12067669 | Watertight ray triangle intersection | Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, Greg Muthler +3 more | 2024-08-20 |
| 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 |
| 11928772 | Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware | Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess | 2024-03-12 |
| 11854141 | Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware | Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. | 2023-12-26 |
| 11804000 | Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Gregory MUTHLER, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +3 more | 2023-10-31 |
| 11790595 | Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections | Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more | 2023-10-17 |
| 11704863 | Watertight ray triangle intersection | Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, Greg Muthler +3 more | 2023-07-18 |
| 11675704 | Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling | Greg Muthler, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +2 more | 2023-06-13 |
| 11663773 | Using importance resampling to reduce the memory incoherence of light sampling | Christopher Ryan Wyman, Robert A. Alfieri, Peter Schuyler Shirley | 2023-05-30 |
| 11645810 | Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention | Greg Muthler, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more | 2023-05-09 |
| 11508112 | Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware | Gregory MUTHLER, John Burgess, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. | 2022-11-22 |
| 11455768 | Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware | Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess | 2022-09-27 |
| 11379944 | Techniques for performing accelerated point sampling in a texture processing pipeline | Michael A. Fetterman, Shirish Gadre, Mark Alan Gebhart, Steven James Heinrich, Ramesh Jandhyala +3 more | 2022-07-05 |
| 11328472 | Watertight ray triangle intersection | Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, Greg Muthler +3 more | 2022-05-10 |
| 11200725 | Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention | Greg Muthler, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more | 2021-12-14 |
| 11189075 | Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Gregory MUTHLER, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +3 more | 2021-11-30 |
| 11164360 | Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections | Samuli Matias Laine, Tero Tapani Karras, Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more | 2021-11-02 |
| 11157414 | Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling | Greg Muthler, Timo Oskari Aila, Tero Tapani Karras, Samuli Matias Laine, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr. +2 more | 2021-10-26 |