Chris Brennan

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West Newton, MA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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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
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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
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Pixelation optimized delta color compression
- Patent number 10,529,118
- Issue date Jan 7, 2020
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Ruijin Wu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Variable rate shading
- Patent number 10,510,185
- Issue date Dec 17, 2019
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Skyler Jonathon Saleh
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Out of order pixel shader exports
- Patent number 10,417,815
- Issue date Sep 17, 2019
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Pazhani Pillai
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Delta color compression application to video
- Patent number 10,304,155
- Issue date May 28, 2019
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Anthony Chan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Stencil compression operations
- Patent number 10,115,221
- Issue date Oct 30, 2018
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for compressing randomly accessed data
- Patent number 10,062,143
- Issue date Aug 28, 2018
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Chris Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Culling objects from a 3-D graphics pipeline using hierarchical Z b...
- Patent number 10,032,308
- Issue date Jul 24, 2018
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Timour T. Paltashev
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and systems for enhanced quality anti-aliasing
- Patent number 8,928,690
- Issue date Jan 6, 2015
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher Jude Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for processing pixel depth information
- Patent number 8,860,721
- Issue date Oct 14, 2014
- ATI Technologies ULC
- Andrew E. Gruber
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for generating a plurality of stencil referenc...
- Patent number 8,243,096
- Issue date Aug 14, 2012
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Mark Fowler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Depth operations
- Patent number 8,184,118
- Issue date May 22, 2012
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Stencil operations
- Patent number 8,184,117
- Issue date May 22, 2012
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Christopher Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for retrieving and combining samples of graph...
- Patent number 7,551,177
- Issue date Jun 23, 2009
- ATI Technologies, Inc.
- Chris Brennan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

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
Information Patent Application
PIXELATION OPTIMIZED DELTA COLOR COMPRESSION
- Publication number 20210304486
- Publication date Sep 30, 2021
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Ruijin Wu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VRS RATE FEEDBACK
- Publication number 20210192827
- Publication date Jun 24, 2021
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Skyler Jonathon Saleh
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GRAPHICS TEXTURE FOOTPRINT DISCOVERY
- Publication number 20210104095
- Publication date Apr 8, 2021
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. BRENNAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RASTER ORDER VIEW
- Publication number 20200202815
- Publication date Jun 25, 2020
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Pazhani Pillai
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GRAPHICS TEXTURE FOOTPRINT DISCOVERY
- Publication number 20200193697
- Publication date Jun 18, 2020
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. BRENNAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AGGREGATING COMMANDS IN A STREAM BASED ON CACHE LINE ADDRESSES
- Publication number 20200174697
- Publication date Jun 4, 2020
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Christopher J. BRENNAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Chris Brennan

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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

Pixelation optimized delta color compression

Variable rate shading

Out of order pixel shader exports

Delta color compression application to video

Stencil compression operations

Method and apparatus for compressing randomly accessed data

Culling objects from a 3-D graphics pipeline using hierarchical Z b...

Methods and systems for enhanced quality anti-aliasing

Method and apparatus for processing pixel depth information

Method and apparatus for generating a plurality of stencil referenc...

Depth operations

Stencil operations

Methods and apparatus for retrieving and combining samples of graph...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

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

PIXELATION OPTIMIZED DELTA COLOR COMPRESSION

VRS RATE FEEDBACK

GRAPHICS TEXTURE FOOTPRINT DISCOVERY

RASTER ORDER VIEW

GRAPHICS TEXTURE FOOTPRINT DISCOVERY

AGGREGATING COMMANDS IN A STREAM BASED ON CACHE LINE ADDRESSES