David William John PANKRATZ

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Toronto, CA

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Traversing multiple regions of a bounding volume hierarchy in parallel
- Patent number 12,307,577
- Issue date May 20, 2025
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Dynamic node traversal order for ray tracing
- Patent number 12,154,215
- Issue date Nov 26, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Stack-based ray traversal with dynamic multiple-node iterations
- Patent number 11,908,065
- Issue date Feb 20, 2024
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Daniel James Skinner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for supporting an image rendering using ray tr...
- Patent number 11,783,528
- Issue date Oct 10, 2023
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Tyler Bryce Nowicki
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
System and Method for Low-precision Ray Tests
- Publication number 20250209723
- Publication date Jun 26, 2025
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Andrew Erin Kensler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRISM VOLUMES FOR DISPLACED SUBDIVIDED TRIANGLES
- Publication number 20250200890
- Publication date Jun 19, 2025
- Andrew Erin Kensler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Dynamically Allocated Memory-Backed Traversal Stack for Ray Tracing...
- Publication number 20250173812
- Publication date May 29, 2025
- ATI Technologies ULC
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRE-FILTERING NODES FOR BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY
- Publication number 20250111586
- Publication date Apr 3, 2025
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Michael John Livesley
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SIMPLIFIED LOW-PRECISION RAY INTERSECTION THROUGH ACCELERATED HIERA...
- Publication number 20250111587
- Publication date Apr 3, 2025
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Andrew Erin Kensler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RAYTRACING STRUCTURE TRAVERSAL BASED ON WORK ITEMS
- Publication number 20250104328
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TRAVERSAL AND PROCEDURAL SHADER BOUNDS REFINEMENT
- Publication number 20240412445
- Publication date Dec 12, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SPLIT BOUNDING VOLUMES FOR INSTANCES
- Publication number 20240412446
- Publication date Dec 12, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EMULATING ORIENTED BOUNDING BOXES IN BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHIES
- Publication number 20240221283
- Publication date Jul 4, 2024
- ATI Technologies ULC
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TRAVERSING MULTIPLE REGIONS OF A BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY IN PARALLEL
- Publication number 20240212259
- Publication date Jun 27, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
INTERSECTABLE INSTANCE NODES FOR RAY TRACING ACCELERATION STRUCTURE...
- Publication number 20240203033
- Publication date Jun 20, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY LEAF NODE COMPRESSION
- Publication number 20240203032
- Publication date Jun 20, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BOX SPLITTING FOR BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHIES
- Publication number 20240203034
- Publication date Jun 20, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC NODE TRAVERSAL ORDER FOR RAY TRACING
- Publication number 20240112392
- Publication date Apr 4, 2024
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- David William John Pankratz
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
STACK-BASED RAY TRAVERSAL WITH DYNAMIC MULTIPLE-NODE ITERATIONS
- Publication number 20230298256
- Publication date Sep 21, 2023
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Daniel James Skinner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AN IMAGE RENDERING USING RAY TR...
- Publication number 20230196654
- Publication date Jun 22, 2023
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
- Tyler Bryce NOWICKI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

David William John PANKRATZ

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Traversing multiple regions of a bounding volume hierarchy in parallel

Dynamic node traversal order for ray tracing

Stack-based ray traversal with dynamic multiple-node iterations

Method and apparatus for supporting an image rendering using ray tr...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

System and Method for Low-precision Ray Tests

PRISM VOLUMES FOR DISPLACED SUBDIVIDED TRIANGLES

Dynamically Allocated Memory-Backed Traversal Stack for Ray Tracing...

PRE-FILTERING NODES FOR BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY

SIMPLIFIED LOW-PRECISION RAY INTERSECTION THROUGH ACCELERATED HIERA...

RAYTRACING STRUCTURE TRAVERSAL BASED ON WORK ITEMS

TRAVERSAL AND PROCEDURAL SHADER BOUNDS REFINEMENT

SPLIT BOUNDING VOLUMES FOR INSTANCES

EMULATING ORIENTED BOUNDING BOXES IN BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHIES

TRAVERSING MULTIPLE REGIONS OF A BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY IN PARALLEL

INTERSECTABLE INSTANCE NODES FOR RAY TRACING ACCELERATION STRUCTURE...

BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY LEAF NODE COMPRESSION

BOX SPLITTING FOR BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHIES

DYNAMIC NODE TRAVERSAL ORDER FOR RAY TRACING

STACK-BASED RAY TRAVERSAL WITH DYNAMIC MULTIPLE-NODE ITERATIONS

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AN IMAGE RENDERING USING RAY TR...