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NVIDIA CORP
US·4,451 granted patents·2,663 pending applications·50,043 citations·filing 1995–2025
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7,114 records- 0199US11822398B2Intelligent and redundant air-cooled cooling loop for datacenter cooling systemsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 21, 2023·18 cites·30 claims
- 0299US11751359B2Intelligent movable flow controller and cooling manifold for datacenter cooling systemsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2021·Granted Sep 5, 2023·21 cites·30 claims
- 0399US11212943B2Universal pluggable datacenter cooling systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 28, 2021·9 cites·20 claims
- 0499US10535114B2Controlling multi-pass rendering sequences in a cache tiling architectureNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 14, 2020·89 cites·20 claims
- 0599US10025879B2Tree data structures based on a plurality of local coordinate systemsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 17, 2018·50 cites·20 claims
- 0699US9582607B2Block-based bounding volume hierarchyNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 28, 2017·63 cites·20 claims
- 0799US9569559B2Beam tracingNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 14, 2017·67 cites·16 claims
- 0899US9262797B2Multi-sample surface processing using one sampleNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 16, 2016·132 cites·16 claims
- 0999US9165399B2System, method, and computer program product for inputting modified coverage data into a pixel shaderNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 20, 2015·132 cites·12 claims
- 1099US7861060B1Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays and thread identifier values to determine processing behaviorNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 28, 2010·218 cites·18 claims
- 1199US7805587B1Memory addressing controlled by PTE fieldsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 28, 2010·440 cites·20 claims
- 1299US7616206B1Efficient multi-chip GPUNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 10, 2009·107 cites·20 claims
- 1399US7492368B1Apparatus, system, and method for coalescing parallel memory requestsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 17, 2009·103 cites·16 claims
- 1499US7170515B1Rendering pipelineNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 30, 2007·287 cites·20 claims
- 1599US7075541B2Adaptive load balancing in a multi-processor graphics processing systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 11, 2006·235 cites·27 claims
- 1699US7058769B1Method and system of improving disk access time by compressionNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 6, 2006·131 cites·7 claims
- 1798US12100230B2Using neural networks for 3D surface structure estimation based on real-world data for autonomous systems and applicationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2021·Granted Sep 24, 2024·9 cites·21 claims
- 1898US11891036B2Leveraging rear-view sensors for automatic emergency braking in autonomous machine applicationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 6, 2024·7 cites·20 claims
- 1998US11682199B2Style-based architecture for generative neural networksNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 20, 2023·10 cites·20 claims
- 2098US11656665B2Hybrid cooling systems for datacentersNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2021·Granted May 23, 2023·8 cites·20 claims
- 2198US11364883B2Leveraging rear-view sensors for automatic emergency braking in autonomous machine applicationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 21, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 2298US11200725B2Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader interventionNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 14, 2021·8 cites·27 claims
- 2398US11170299B2Distance estimation to objects and free-space boundaries in autonomous machine applicationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 9, 2021·27 cites·19 claims
- 2498US11164360B2Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersectionsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 2, 2021·9 cites·23 claims
- 2598US10891538B2Sparse convolutional neural network acceleratorNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 12, 2021·331 cites·20 claims
- 2698US10860922B2Sparse convolutional neural network acceleratorNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 8, 2020·301 cites·20 claims
- 2798US10776985B2Reflection denoising in ray-tracing applicationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 15, 2020·41 cites·20 claims
- 2898US10528864B2Sparse convolutional neural network acceleratorNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 7, 2020·306 cites·18 claims
- 2998US10338919B2Generalized acceleration of matrix multiply accumulate operationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 2, 2019·24 cites·20 claims
- 3098US10235338B2Short stack traversal of tree data structuresNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 19, 2019·45 cites·21 claims
- 3198US9639102B2Predictive current sensingNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2013·Granted May 2, 2017·37 cites·16 claims
- 3298US9552664B2Relative encoding for a block-based bounding volume hierarchyNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 24, 2017·46 cites·19 claims
- 3398US8704826B1Primitive re-ordering between world-space and screen-space pipelines with buffer limited processingNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 22, 2014·30 cites·20 claims
- 3498US7912889B1Mapping the threads of a CTA to the elements of a tile for efficient matrix multiplicationNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 22, 2011·125 cites·20 claims
- 3598US7872657B1Memory addressing scheme using partition stridesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 18, 2011·42 cites·20 claims
- 3698US7835301B1Extended service set mesh topology representationNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 16, 2010·100 cites·21 claims
- 3798US7792895B1Efficient matrix multiplication on a parallel processing deviceNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 7, 2010·121 cites·20 claims
- 3898US7788468B1Synchronization of threads in a cooperative thread arrayNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 31, 2010·169 cites·18 claims
- 3998US7634637B1Execution of parallel groups of threads with per-instruction serializationNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 15, 2009·126 cites·16 claims
- 4098US7627723B1Atomic memory operators in a parallel processorNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 1, 2009·167 cites·20 claims
- 4198US7620793B1Mapping memory partitions to virtual memory pagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 17, 2009·93 cites·18 claims
- 4298US7606175B1Extended service set mesh path selectionNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 20, 2009·92 cites·21 claims
- 4398US7522540B1Extended service set mesh topology discoveryNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 21, 2009·125 cites·17 claims
- 4498US7502010B2Variable brightness LCD backlightNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 10, 2009·54 cites·12 claims
- 4598US7447873B1Multithreaded SIMD parallel processor with loading of groups of threadsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 4, 2008·144 cites·21 claims
- 4698US7426597B1Apparatus, system, and method for bus link width optimization of a graphics systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 16, 2008·128 cites·20 claims
- 4798US7353369B1System and method for managing divergent threads in a SIMD architectureNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 1, 2008·96 cites·15 claims
- 4898US7023437B1System and method for accelerating graphics processing using a post-geometry data stream during multiple-pass renderingNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 4, 2006·211 cites·36 claims
- 4998US7015913B1Method and apparatus for multithreaded processing of data in a programmable graphics processorNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 21, 2006·224 cites·33 claims
- 5098US7015915B1Programming multiple chips from a command bufferNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 21, 2006·147 cites·31 claims
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