Chris Brennan

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West Newton, MA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Method and system for integrating compression
- Patent number 12,266,139
- Issue date Apr 1, 2025
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Spatial test of bounding volumes for rasterization
- Patent number 12,260,494
- Issue date Mar 25, 2025
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Graphics discard engine
- Patent number 12,236,529
- Issue date Feb 25, 2025
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Performance and memory access tracking
- Patent number 12,182,396
- Issue date Dec 31, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Graphics primitives and positions through memory buffers
- Patent number 12,169,896
- Issue date Dec 17, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Todd Martin
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Optimizing partial writes to compressed blocks
- Patent number 12,169,876
- Issue date Dec 17, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Anthony H C Chan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Hierarchical work scheduling
- Patent number 12,153,957
- Issue date Nov 26, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Matthaeus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Load instruction for multi sample anti-aliasing
- Patent number 12,141,915
- Issue date Nov 12, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Stochastic optimization of surface cacheability in parallel process...
- Patent number 12,117,939
- Issue date Oct 15, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Saurabh Sharma
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
VRS rate feedback
- Patent number 12,118,656
- Issue date Oct 15, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Skyler Jonathon Saleh
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Per-pixel variable rate shading controls using stencil data
- Patent number 12,067,649
- Issue date Aug 20, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Color channel correlation detection
- Patent number 12,067,749
- Issue date Aug 20, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Anthony Chan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Partial sorting for coherency recovery
- Patent number 12,032,967
- Issue date Jul 9, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Swizzle mode detection
- Patent number 11,989,918
- Issue date May 21, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Nooruddin Ahmed
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Live profile-driven cache aging policies
- Patent number 11,860,784
- Issue date Jan 2, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Pixelation optimized delta color compression
- Patent number 11,715,253
- Issue date Aug 1, 2023
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Ruijin Wu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Wave throttling based on a parameter buffer
- Patent number 11,710,207
- Issue date Jul 25, 2023
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
VRS rate feedback
- Patent number 11,657,560
- Issue date May 23, 2023
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Skyler Jonathon Saleh
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Graphics texture footprint discovery
- Patent number 11,620,788
- Issue date Apr 4, 2023
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Aggregating commands in a stream based on cache line addresses
- Patent number 11,614,889
- Issue date Mar 28, 2023
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automatic data format detection
- Patent number 11,488,328
- Issue date Nov 1, 2022
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Anthony Chan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Shader core instruction to invoke depth culling
- Patent number 11,481,967
- Issue date Oct 25, 2022
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for depth pre-processing and geometry sorting usi...
- Patent number 11,195,326
- Issue date Dec 7, 2021
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Ruijin Wu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
VRS rate feedback
- Patent number 11,158,106
- Issue date Oct 26, 2021
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Skyler Jonathon Saleh
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Raster order view
- Patent number 11,062,680
- Issue date Jul 13, 2021
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Pazhani Pillai
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Pixelation optimized delta color compression
- Patent number 11,037,357
- Issue date Jun 15, 2021
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Ruijin Wu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automatic configuration of knobs to optimize performance of a graph...
- Patent number 11,004,251
- Issue date May 11, 2021
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Graphics texture footprint discovery
- Patent number 10,943,391
- Issue date Mar 9, 2021
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Removing or identifying overlapping fragments after z-culling
- Patent number 10,943,389
- Issue date Mar 9, 2021
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Laurent Lefebvre
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Shader writes to compressed resources
- Patent number 10,535,178
- Issue date Jan 14, 2020
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Jimshed Mirza
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

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PERFORMANCE AND MEMORY ACCESS TRACKING AND VISUALIZATION
- Publication number 20250077379
- Publication date Mar 6, 2025
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Guennadi Riguer
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
STREAMING WAVE COALESCER CIRCUIT
- Publication number 20250068429
- Publication date Feb 27, 2025
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- John Stephen Junkins
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HIERARCHICAL WORK SCHEDULING
- Publication number 20250068464
- Publication date Feb 27, 2025
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Matthaeus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SORT-TOP RASTERIZATION AND TILE RENDERING USING AN ACCELERATION STR...
- Publication number 20240404176
- Publication date Dec 5, 2024
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PERFORMANCE AND MEMORY ACCESS TRACKING
- Publication number 20240329833
- Publication date Oct 3, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WAVE THROTTLING BASED ON A PARAMETER BUFFER
- Publication number 20240320777
- Publication date Sep 26, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. BRENNAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Inclusion of Dedicated Accelerators in Graph Nodes
- Publication number 20240202003
- Publication date Jun 20, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HIERARCHICAL WORK SCHEDULING
- Publication number 20240111578
- Publication date Apr 4, 2024
- Matthaeus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SPATIAL TEST OF BOUNDING VOLUMES FOR RASTERIZATION
- Publication number 20240112397
- Publication date Apr 4, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Work Graph Scheduler Implementation
- Publication number 20240111574
- Publication date Apr 4, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Synchronization Method for Low Latency Communication for Efficient...
- Publication number 20240111575
- Publication date Apr 4, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE ADJUSTMENT
- Publication number 20240037031
- Publication date Feb 1, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
LIVE PROFILE-DRIVEN CACHE AGING POLICIES
- Publication number 20230418744
- Publication date Dec 28, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PARTIAL SORTING FOR COHERENCY RECOVERY
- Publication number 20230409337
- Publication date Dec 21, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VRS RATE FEEDBACK
- Publication number 20230252713
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Skyler Jonathon Saleh
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COLOR CHANNEL CORRELATION DETECTION
- Publication number 20230206503
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Anthony Chan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
OPTIMIZING PARTIAL WRITES TO COMPRESSED BLOCKS
- Publication number 20230206380
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- ANTHONY HC CHAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GRAPHICS DISCARD ENGINE
- Publication number 20230206559
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION OF SURFACE CACHEABILITY IN PARALLEL PROCESS...
- Publication number 20230195639
- Publication date Jun 22, 2023
- Saurabh Sharma
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING COMPRESSION
- Publication number 20230186523
- Publication date Jun 15, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GRAPHICS PRIMITIVES AND POSITIONS THROUGH MEMORY BUFFERS
- Publication number 20230097097
- Publication date Mar 30, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Todd Martin
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RENDER TARGET COMPRESSION SCHEME COMPATIBLE WITH VARIABLE RATE SHADING
- Publication number 20220414939
- Publication date Dec 29, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Pazhani Pillai
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PER-PIXEL VARIABLE RATE SHADING CONTROLS USING STENCIL DATA
- Publication number 20220414950
- Publication date Dec 29, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. BRENNAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WAVE THROTTLING BASED ON A PARAMETER BUFFER
- Publication number 20220318944
- Publication date Oct 6, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. BRENNAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Compressed Read and Write Operations via Deduplication
- Publication number 20220197878
- Publication date Jun 23, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SWIZZLE MODE DETECTION
- Publication number 20220101560
- Publication date Mar 31, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Nooruddin Ahmed
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATIC DATA FORMAT DETECTION
- Publication number 20220101563
- Publication date Mar 31, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Anthony Chan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SHADER CORE INSTRUCTION TO INVOKE DEPTH CULLING
- Publication number 20220068012
- Publication date Mar 3, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Matthäus G. Chajdas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VRS RATE FEEDBACK
- Publication number 20220012933
- Publication date Jan 13, 2022
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Skyler Jonathon Saleh
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
LOAD INSTRUCTION FOR MULTI SAMPLE ANTI-ALIASING
- Publication number 20210407182
- Publication date Dec 30, 2021
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Chris Brennan

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Method and system for integrating compression

Spatial test of bounding volumes for rasterization

Graphics discard engine

Performance and memory access tracking

Graphics primitives and positions through memory buffers

Optimizing partial writes to compressed blocks

Hierarchical work scheduling

Load instruction for multi sample anti-aliasing

Stochastic optimization of surface cacheability in parallel process...

VRS rate feedback

Per-pixel variable rate shading controls using stencil data

Color channel correlation detection

Partial sorting for coherency recovery

Swizzle mode detection

Live profile-driven cache aging policies

Pixelation optimized delta color compression

Wave throttling based on a parameter buffer

VRS rate feedback

Graphics texture footprint discovery

Aggregating commands in a stream based on cache line addresses

Automatic data format detection

Shader core instruction to invoke depth culling

Method and system for depth pre-processing and geometry sorting usi...

VRS rate feedback

Raster order view

Pixelation optimized delta color compression

Automatic configuration of knobs to optimize performance of a graph...

Graphics texture footprint discovery

Removing or identifying overlapping fragments after z-culling

Shader writes to compressed resources

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

PERFORMANCE AND MEMORY ACCESS TRACKING AND VISUALIZATION

STREAMING WAVE COALESCER CIRCUIT

HIERARCHICAL WORK SCHEDULING

SORT-TOP RASTERIZATION AND TILE RENDERING USING AN ACCELERATION STR...

PERFORMANCE AND MEMORY ACCESS TRACKING

WAVE THROTTLING BASED ON A PARAMETER BUFFER

Inclusion of Dedicated Accelerators in Graph Nodes

HIERARCHICAL WORK SCHEDULING

SPATIAL TEST OF BOUNDING VOLUMES FOR RASTERIZATION

Work Graph Scheduler Implementation

Synchronization Method for Low Latency Communication for Efficient...

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE ADJUSTMENT

LIVE PROFILE-DRIVEN CACHE AGING POLICIES

PARTIAL SORTING FOR COHERENCY RECOVERY

VRS RATE FEEDBACK

COLOR CHANNEL CORRELATION DETECTION

OPTIMIZING PARTIAL WRITES TO COMPRESSED BLOCKS

GRAPHICS DISCARD ENGINE

STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION OF SURFACE CACHEABILITY IN PARALLEL PROCESS...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING COMPRESSION

GRAPHICS PRIMITIVES AND POSITIONS THROUGH MEMORY BUFFERS

RENDER TARGET COMPRESSION SCHEME COMPATIBLE WITH VARIABLE RATE SHADING

PER-PIXEL VARIABLE RATE SHADING CONTROLS USING STENCIL DATA

WAVE THROTTLING BASED ON A PARAMETER BUFFER

Compressed Read and Write Operations via Deduplication

SWIZZLE MODE DETECTION

AUTOMATIC DATA FORMAT DETECTION

SHADER CORE INSTRUCTION TO INVOKE DEPTH CULLING

VRS RATE FEEDBACK

LOAD INSTRUCTION FOR MULTI SAMPLE ANTI-ALIASING