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BURNS CHRISTOPHER A
US27 patents
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APPLE INC
24 patentsUS11645084B2May 9, 2023
SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registers
APPLE INC2 citations73
US11126439B2Sep 21, 2021
SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registers
APPLE INC3 citations73
US9905040B2Feb 27, 2018
Texture sampling techniques
APPLE INC2 citations72
US10282169B2May 7, 2019
Floating-point multiply-add with down-conversion
APPLE INC2 citations70
US12462467B2Nov 4, 2025
Hardware acceleration for motion blur with ray tracing
APPLE INC1 citations63
US12405803B1Sep 2, 2025
Superscalar execution using pipelines that support different precisions
APPLE INC0 citations62
US12405786B1Sep 2, 2025
Hardware support for conversion between integer and floating-point data
APPLE INC0 citations62
US12217353B2Feb 4, 2025
Quantized ray intersection testing with definitive hit detection
APPLE INC0 citations62
US12008377B2Jun 11, 2024
SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registers
APPLE INC0 citations62
US11830124B2Nov 28, 2023
Quantized ray intersection testing with definitive hit detection
APPLE INC0 citations62
US11734871B2Aug 22, 2023
Ray intersection testing with quantization and interval representations
APPLE INC1 citations62
US12217350B2Feb 4, 2025
Node encoding for spatially-organized ray tracing acceleration data structure
APPLE INC0 citations61
US11875448B2Jan 16, 2024
SIMD group formation techniques during ray intersection traversal
APPLE INC0 citations61
US11676327B2Jun 13, 2023
Temporal split techniques for motion blur and ray intersection
APPLE INC0 citations61
US11436784B2Sep 6, 2022
SIMD group formation techniques for primitive testing associated with ray intersect traversal
APPLE INC0 citations61
US11373360B2Jun 28, 2022
Grouping techniques for ray intersection traversal
APPLE INC0 citations61
US11335061B2May 17, 2022
Ray intersection data structure with many-to-many mapping between bounding regions and primitives
APPLE INC0 citations61
US12524862B2Jan 13, 2026
Primitive testing for ray intersection at multiple precisions
APPLE INC0 citations54
US12002190B2Jun 4, 2024
Primitive testing for ray intersection at multiple precisions
APPLE INC0 citations54
US12579730B2Mar 17, 2026
Ray-box intersection circuitry
APPLE INC0 citations52
US11367242B2Jun 21, 2022
Ray intersect circuitry with parallel ray testing
APPLE INC0 citations51
US10192349B2Jan 29, 2019
Texture sampling techniques
APPLE INC0 citations51
US9530237B2Dec 27, 2016
Interpolation circuitry and techniques for graphics processing
APPLE INC0 citations50
US12573128B2Mar 10, 2026
Progressive compression of geometry for graphics processing
APPLE INC0 citations48