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Christopher A. Burns
Also filed as: BURNS CHRISTOPHER · BURNS CHRISTOPHER A · BURNS CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
36 granted patents·8 pending applications·319 citations·filing 1990–2025
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44 records- 0194US5129096ASystem which routes radio transmissions to selected repeaters for retransmissionTUNSTALL TELECOM LTD·Filed 1990·Granted Jul 7, 1992·250 cites·19 claims
- 0293US11645084B2SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registersAPPLE INC·Filed 2021·Granted May 9, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 0393US8791945B2Rendering tessellated geometry with motion and defocus blurCLARBERG FRANZ P·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 29, 2014·27 cites·12 claims
- 0490US12462467B2Hardware acceleration for motion blur with ray tracingAPPLE INC·Filed 2023·Granted Nov 4, 2025·1 cites·19 claims
- 0588US9237292B2Determining remote control state and user via accelerometerECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 12, 2016·8 cites·16 claims
- 0685US11126439B2SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registersAPPLE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 21, 2021·3 cites·20 claims
- 0785US2025111591A1Updated Origin Coordinates for Traversal of Ray Tracing Acceleration Data StructureAPPLE INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 0883US11734871B2Ray intersection testing with quantization and interval representationsAPPLE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 22, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
- 0983US8732271B1Sponsored message network based on community preferencesBURNS CHRISTOPHER·Filed 2012·Granted May 20, 2014·12 cites·9 claims
- 1081US8749716B2Methods and apparatus for dynamic volume punch-throughECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 10, 2014·4 cites·17 claims
- 1181US2025124645A1Ordering of Child Node Traversal for Ray TracingAPPLE INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 1281US2025355665A1Hardware Support for Conversion between Integer and Floating-Point DataAPPLE INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 1379US12217353B2Quantized ray intersection testing with definitive hit detectionAPPLE INC·Filed 2023·Granted Feb 4, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 1478US12405786B1Hardware support for conversion between integer and floating-point dataAPPLE INC·Filed 2024·Granted Sep 2, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 1576US12217350B2Node encoding for spatially-organized ray tracing acceleration data structureAPPLE INC·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 4, 2025·0 cites·15 claims
- 1676US12008377B2SIMD operand permutation with selection from among multiple registersAPPLE INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jun 11, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 1775US9905040B2Texture sampling techniquesAPPLE INC·Filed 2016·Granted Feb 27, 2018·2 cites·19 claims
- 1873US10282169B2Floating-point multiply-add with down-conversionAPPLE INC·Filed 2016·Granted May 7, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 1973US9854467B2Methods and systems for device wireless module diagnosticsECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 26, 2017·3 cites·20 claims
- 2072US11436784B2SIMD group formation techniques for primitive testing associated with ray intersect traversalAPPLE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 6, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 2172US11373360B2Grouping techniques for ray intersection traversalAPPLE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 28, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 2272US11335061B2Ray intersection data structure with many-to-many mapping between bounding regions and primitivesAPPLE INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 17, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 2371US11830124B2Quantized ray intersection testing with definitive hit detectionAPPLE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Nov 28, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2470US12405803B1Superscalar execution using pipelines that support different precisionsAPPLE INC·Filed 2022·Granted Sep 2, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 2570US11875448B2SIMD group formation techniques during ray intersection traversalAPPLE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 16, 2024·0 cites·18 claims
- 2669US9965892B2Rendering tessellated geometry with motion and defocus blurINTEL CORP·Filed 2014·Granted May 8, 2018·2 cites·15 claims
- 2768US8875216B2Methods and apparatus for dynamic volume punch-throughECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 28, 2014·1 cites·20 claims
- 2862US10678381B2Determining handedness on multi-element capacitive devicesDISH TECH LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 9, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 2960US12002190B2Primitive testing for ray intersection at multiple precisionsAPPLE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 4, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 3057US11676327B2Temporal split techniques for motion blur and ray intersectionAPPLE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Jun 13, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3155US10192349B2Texture sampling techniquesAPPLE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jan 29, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 3255US2025095274A1Pruning Ray Tracing Traversal Operations based on Local Ray Parameter ValueAPPLE INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 3354US11367242B2Ray intersect circuitry with parallel ray testingAPPLE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 21, 2022·0 cites·17 claims
- 3454US2025103292A1Matrix Multiplier CachingAPPLE INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3553US9292831B2Monitoring data elements across multiple networks and processesBURNS CHRISTOPHER·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 22, 2016·0 cites·5 claims
- 3651US11477511B2Determining remote control state and user via accelerometerECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 18, 2022·0 cites·16 claims
- 3751US2022222736A1Systems and methods for electronic subscription managementBIT GOOEY INC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 3846US9767797B2Voice input handlingECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Sep 19, 2017·0 cites·18 claims
- 3945US2022222679A1Systems and methods for integration of e-commerce dataBIT GOOEY INC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 4045US2022222130A1Systems and methods for integrating content management systems with softwareBIT GOOEY INC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 4144US11297185B1Systems and methods for conference call system managementBURNS CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER·Filed 2021·Granted Apr 5, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 4244US9530237B2Interpolation circuitry and techniques for graphics processingAPPLE INC·Filed 2015·Granted Dec 27, 2016·0 cites·18 claims
- 4342US10008093B2Systems, methods and apparatus for determining button degradation of a user input deviceDISH TECH LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 26, 2018·0 cites·20 claims
- 4441US10171924B2Systems and methods for audio calibration using acoustic measurementsDISH TECH LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 1, 2019·0 cites·16 claims
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