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BRENNAN CHRISTOPHER J
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ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
39 patentsUS11158106B2Oct 26, 2021
VRS rate feedback
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US10529118B1Jan 7, 2020
Pixelation optimized delta color compression
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US11657560B2May 23, 2023
VRS rate feedback
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC2 citations72
US10510185B2Dec 17, 2019
Variable rate shading
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC5 citations72
US10535178B2Jan 14, 2020
Shader writes to compressed resources
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC2 citations71
US11037357B2Jun 15, 2021
Pixelation optimized delta color compression
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC2 citations70
US12561249B2Feb 24, 2026
Prefetching using a direct memory access engine
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US12118656B2Oct 15, 2024
VRS rate feedback
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US12067649B2Aug 20, 2024
Per-pixel variable rate shading controls using stencil data
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC1 citations62
US11620788B2Apr 4, 2023
Graphics texture footprint discovery
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US11062680B2Jul 13, 2021
Raster order view
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC1 citations62
US10943391B2Mar 9, 2021
Graphics texture footprint discovery
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC0 citations62
US10417815B2Sep 17, 2019
Out of order pixel shader exports
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC1 citations62
US10304155B2May 28, 2019
Delta color compression application to video
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC1 citations62
US12032967B2Jul 9, 2024
Partial sorting for coherency recovery
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US11710207B2Jul 25, 2023
Wave throttling based on a parameter buffer
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US11481967B2Oct 25, 2022
Shader core instruction to invoke depth culling
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US12399839B1Aug 26, 2025
Dynamically controlled cache rinsing
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC1 citations60
US12436767B2Oct 7, 2025
System and method for scheduling operations in a graphics pipeline
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US12182396B2Dec 31, 2024
Performance and memory access tracking
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US12153957B2Nov 26, 2024
Hierarchical work scheduling
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US12141915B2Nov 12, 2024
Load instruction for multi sample anti-aliasing
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US12117939B2Oct 15, 2024
Stochastic optimization of surface cacheability in parallel processing units
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US11715253B2Aug 1, 2023
Pixelation optimized delta color compression
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC0 citations59
US12405888B2Sep 2, 2025
Dynamic performance adjustment
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US12260494B2Mar 25, 2025
Spatial test of bounding volumes for rasterization
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US12236529B2Feb 25, 2025
Graphics discard engine
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US12169896B2Dec 17, 2024
Graphics primitives and positions through memory buffers
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US11860784B1Jan 2, 2024
Live profile-driven cache aging policies
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US12578992B2Mar 17, 2026
Work graph scheduler implementation
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US12067749B2Aug 20, 2024
Color channel correlation detection
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US11989918B2May 21, 2024
Swizzle mode detection
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US12169876B2Dec 17, 2024
Optimizing partial writes to compressed blocks
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US11488328B2Nov 1, 2022
Automatic data format detection
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US11614889B2Mar 28, 2023
Aggregating commands in a stream based on cache line addresses
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US11004251B2May 11, 2021
Automatic configuration of knobs to optimize performance of a graphics pipeline
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US12266139B2Apr 1, 2025
Method and system for integrating compression
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US10943389B2Mar 9, 2021
Removing or identifying overlapping fragments after z-culling
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US11195326B2Dec 7, 2021
Method and system for depth pre-processing and geometry sorting using binning hardware
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