Gregory Alan MUTHLER

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Austin, TX, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing
- Patent number 12,260,486
- Issue date Mar 25, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- John Burgess
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing
- Patent number 12,249,022
- Issue date Mar 11, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- John Burgess
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Reducing false positive ray traversal in a bounding volume hierarchy
- Patent number 12,198,251
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Reducing false positive ray traversal using point degenerate culling
- Patent number 12,198,252
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware
- Patent number 12,198,256
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive...
- Patent number 12,198,253
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal
- Patent number 12,198,255
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures
- Patent number 12,190,435
- Issue date Jan 7, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Ray tracing hardware acceleration for supporting motion blur and mo...
- Patent number 12,159,342
- Issue date Dec 3, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Generation and traversal of partial acceleration structures for ray...
- Patent number 12,154,214
- Issue date Nov 26, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on interse...
- Patent number 12,148,088
- Issue date Nov 19, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Greg Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath schedu...
- Patent number 12,124,378
- Issue date Oct 22, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory A. Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Reducing false positive ray traversal using ray clipping
- Patent number 12,106,423
- Issue date Oct 1, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Hardware-based techniques applicable for ray tracing for efficientl...
- Patent number 12,073,504
- Issue date Aug 27, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Watertight ray triangle intersection
- Patent number 12,067,669
- Issue date Aug 20, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space tran...
- Patent number 12,020,367
- Issue date Jun 25, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Robust, efficient multiprocessor-coprocessor interface
- Patent number 11,966,737
- Issue date Apr 23, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Ronald Charles Babich
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree trave...
- Patent number 11,928,772
- Issue date Mar 12, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Greg Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware
- Patent number 11,854,141
- Issue date Dec 26, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures
- Patent number 11,816,783
- Issue date Nov 14, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal
- Patent number 11,804,000
- Issue date Oct 31, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Techniques for traversing data employed in ray tracing
- Patent number 11,804,002
- Issue date Oct 31, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive...
- Patent number 11,790,595
- Issue date Oct 17, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Watertight ray triangle intersection
- Patent number 11,704,863
- Issue date Jul 18, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath schedu...
- Patent number 11,675,704
- Issue date Jun 13, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Greg Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Hardware-based techniques applicable for ray tracing for efficientl...
- Patent number 11,663,770
- Issue date May 30, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on interse...
- Patent number 11,645,810
- Issue date May 9, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Greg Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware
- Patent number 11,508,112
- Issue date Nov 22, 2022
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree trave...
- Patent number 11,455,768
- Issue date Sep 27, 2022
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Greg Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Hardware acceleration for ray tracing primitives that share vertices
- Patent number 11,450,057
- Issue date Sep 20, 2022
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
Displaced Micro-meshes for Ray and Path Tracing
- Publication number 20250182380
- Publication date Jun 5, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- John BURGESS
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR CONTINUED BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY TRAVERSAL ON INTERSE...
- Publication number 20250118005
- Publication date Apr 10, 2025
- Greg MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR HANDLING OF OUT-OF-ORDER OPAQUE AND ALPHA RAY/PRIMITIVE...
- Publication number 20250104334
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
QUERY-SPECIFIC BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION OF TREE TRAVERSAL
- Publication number 20250104332
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli LAINE
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL USING POINT DEGENERATE CULLING
- Publication number 20250104333
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Enhanced Techniques for Traversing Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures
- Publication number 20250095276
- Publication date Mar 20, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EARLY RELEASE OF RESOURCES IN RAY TRACING HARDWARE
- Publication number 20250095277
- Publication date Mar 20, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Generation and Traversal of Partial Acceleration Structures for Ray...
- Publication number 20250046003
- Publication date Feb 6, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RAY TRACING HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR SUPPORTING MOTION BLUR AND MO...
- Publication number 20250046004
- Publication date Feb 6, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR EFFICIENT GROUPING OF CACHE REQUESTS FOR DATAPATH SCHEDU...
- Publication number 20250004947
- Publication date Jan 2, 2025
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory A. MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HARDWARE-BASED TECHNIQUES APPLICABLE FOR RAY TRACING FOR EFFICIENTL...
- Publication number 20240362851
- Publication date Oct 31, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WATERTIGHT RAY TRIANGLE INTERSECTION
- Publication number 20240355039
- Publication date Oct 24, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RAY TRACING HARDWARE ACCELERATION WITH ALTERNATIVE WORLD SPACE TRAN...
- Publication number 20240303906
- Publication date Sep 12, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ROBUST, EFFICIENT MULTIPROCESSOR-COPROCESSOR INTERFACE
- Publication number 20240211255
- Publication date Jun 27, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Ronald Charles BABICH
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR FORWARD PROGRESS AND PROGRAMMABLE TIMEOUTS OF TREE TRAVE...
- Publication number 20240169655
- Publication date May 23, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Greg Muthler
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EARLY RELEASE OF RESOURCES IN RAY TRACING HARDWARE
- Publication number 20240104826
- Publication date Mar 28, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL USING RAY CLIPPING
- Publication number 20240095995
- Publication date Mar 21, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENCY OF RAY-BOX TESTS
- Publication number 20240095996
- Publication date Mar 21, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL USING POINT DEGENERATE CULLING
- Publication number 20240095994
- Publication date Mar 21, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL IN A BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY
- Publication number 20240095993
- Publication date Mar 21, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Generation and Traversal of Partial Acceleration Structures for Ray...
- Publication number 20240087211
- Publication date Mar 14, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Greg MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Enhanced Techniques for Traversing Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures
- Publication number 20240037841
- Publication date Feb 1, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR TRAVERSING DATA EMPLOYED IN RAY TRACING
- Publication number 20240009226
- Publication date Jan 11, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
QUERY-SPECIFIC BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION OF TREE TRAVERSAL
- Publication number 20240013471
- Publication date Jan 11, 2024
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli LAINE
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR HANDLING OF OUT-OF-ORDER OPAQUE AND ALPHA RAY/PRIMITIVE...
- Publication number 20230410410
- Publication date Dec 21, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli LAINE
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HARDWARE-BASED TECHNIQUES APPLICABLE FOR RAY TRACING FOR EFFICIENTL...
- Publication number 20230316632
- Publication date Oct 5, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WATERTIGHT TAY TRIANGLE INTERSECTION
- Publication number 20230298258
- Publication date Sep 21, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Samuli Laine
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR CONTINUED BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY RAVERSAL ON INTERSEC...
- Publication number 20230237729
- Publication date Jul 27, 2023
- Greg MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Displaced Micro-meshes for Ray and Path Tracing
- Publication number 20230078932
- Publication date Mar 16, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- John BURGESS
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ACCELERATING TRIANGLE VISIBILITY TESTS FOR REAL-TIME RAY TRACING
- Publication number 20230084570
- Publication date Mar 16, 2023
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gregory MUTHLER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Gregory Alan MUTHLER

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing

Displaced micro-meshes for ray and path tracing

Reducing false positive ray traversal in a bounding volume hierarchy

Reducing false positive ray traversal using point degenerate culling

Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware

Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive...

Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal

Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures

Ray tracing hardware acceleration for supporting motion blur and mo...

Generation and traversal of partial acceleration structures for ray...

Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on interse...

Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath schedu...

Reducing false positive ray traversal using ray clipping

Hardware-based techniques applicable for ray tracing for efficientl...

Watertight ray triangle intersection

Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space tran...

Robust, efficient multiprocessor-coprocessor interface

Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree trave...

Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware

Enhanced techniques for traversing ray tracing acceleration structures

Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal

Techniques for traversing data employed in ray tracing

Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive...

Watertight ray triangle intersection

Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath schedu...

Hardware-based techniques applicable for ray tracing for efficientl...

Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on interse...

Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware

Method for forward progress and programmable timeouts of tree trave...

Hardware acceleration for ray tracing primitives that share vertices

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Displaced Micro-meshes for Ray and Path Tracing

METHOD FOR CONTINUED BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY TRAVERSAL ON INTERSE...

METHOD FOR HANDLING OF OUT-OF-ORDER OPAQUE AND ALPHA RAY/PRIMITIVE...

QUERY-SPECIFIC BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION OF TREE TRAVERSAL

REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL USING POINT DEGENERATE CULLING

Enhanced Techniques for Traversing Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures

EARLY RELEASE OF RESOURCES IN RAY TRACING HARDWARE

Generation and Traversal of Partial Acceleration Structures for Ray...

RAY TRACING HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR SUPPORTING MOTION BLUR AND MO...

METHOD FOR EFFICIENT GROUPING OF CACHE REQUESTS FOR DATAPATH SCHEDU...

HARDWARE-BASED TECHNIQUES APPLICABLE FOR RAY TRACING FOR EFFICIENTL...

WATERTIGHT RAY TRIANGLE INTERSECTION

RAY TRACING HARDWARE ACCELERATION WITH ALTERNATIVE WORLD SPACE TRAN...

ROBUST, EFFICIENT MULTIPROCESSOR-COPROCESSOR INTERFACE

METHOD FOR FORWARD PROGRESS AND PROGRAMMABLE TIMEOUTS OF TREE TRAVE...

EARLY RELEASE OF RESOURCES IN RAY TRACING HARDWARE

REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL USING RAY CLIPPING

EFFICIENCY OF RAY-BOX TESTS

REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL USING POINT DEGENERATE CULLING

REDUCING FALSE POSITIVE RAY TRAVERSAL IN A BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY

Generation and Traversal of Partial Acceleration Structures for Ray...

Enhanced Techniques for Traversing Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures

TECHNIQUES FOR TRAVERSING DATA EMPLOYED IN RAY TRACING

QUERY-SPECIFIC BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION OF TREE TRAVERSAL

METHOD FOR HANDLING OF OUT-OF-ORDER OPAQUE AND ALPHA RAY/PRIMITIVE...

HARDWARE-BASED TECHNIQUES APPLICABLE FOR RAY TRACING FOR EFFICIENTL...

WATERTIGHT TAY TRIANGLE INTERSECTION

METHOD FOR CONTINUED BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY RAVERSAL ON INTERSEC...

Displaced Micro-meshes for Ray and Path Tracing

ACCELERATING TRIANGLE VISIBILITY TESTS FOR REAL-TIME RAY TRACING