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David Kirk Mcallister
Also filed as: MCALLISTER DAVID K · MCALLISTER DAVID KIRK
33 granted patents·16 pending applications·249 citations·filing 1989–2025
96Inventor score
Files withADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC14NVIDIA CORP11QUALCOMM INC11MCALLISTER DAVID KIRK5ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC1
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49 records- 0197US7599975B1Decompression of compressed 16 bit dataNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 6, 2009·43 cites·13 claims
- 0292US7420568B1System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled graphics memoryNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 2, 2008·18 cites·14 claims
- 0391US11861785B2Generation of tight world space bounding regionsQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 2, 2024·2 cites·26 claims
- 0491US11593990B1Storage of levels for bottom level bounding volume hierarchyQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 28, 2023·4 cites·30 claims
- 0590US7474313B1Apparatus, method, and system for coalesced Z data and color data for raster operationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 6, 2009·13 cites·17 claims
- 0690US4983797AMethod for manufacturing a composite camshaftDANA CORP·Filed 1989·Granted Jan 8, 1991·45 cites·8 claims
- 0787US8605104B1Threshold-based lossy reduction color compressionMCALLISTER DAVID KIRK·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 10, 2013·19 cites·21 claims
- 0885US8872824B1System, method, and computer program product for performing shadowing utilizing shadow maps and ray tracingPHILLIPS MICHAEL ROBERT·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 28, 2014·17 cites·18 claims
- 0984US9607407B2Variable-width differential memory compressionNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 28, 2017·6 cites·20 claims
- 1084US8670613B2Lossless frame buffer color compressionMCALLISTER DAVID K·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 11, 2014·9 cites·21 claims
- 1184US8330766B1Zero-bandwidth clearsMCALLISTER DAVID KIRK·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 11, 2012·6 cites·20 claims
- 1283US8390645B1Method and system for rendering connecting antialiased line segmentsCROW FRANKLIN C·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 5, 2013·13 cites·20 claims
- 1382US8065354B1Compression of 16 bit data using predictor valuesDONOVAN WALTER E·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 22, 2011·11 cites·21 claims
- 1480US7479965B1Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased renderNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 20, 2009·9 cites·24 claims
- 1579US8862823B1Compression status cachingGLASCO DAVID B·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 14, 2014·9 cites·23 claims
- 1677US12505607B2Generation of tight world space bounding regionsQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2023·Granted Dec 23, 2025·0 cites·26 claims
- 1775US8023752B1Decompression of 16 bit data using predictor valuesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 20, 2011·7 cites·22 claims
- 1875US7629982B1Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased renderNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 8, 2009·6 cites·20 claims
- 1971US9235512B2System, method, and computer program product for graphics processing unit (GPU) demand pagingNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Jan 12, 2016·4 cites·19 claims
- 2070US8488890B1Partial coverage layers for color compressionMCALLISTER DAVID KIRK·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 16, 2013·2 cites·17 claims
- 2167US8319783B1Index-based zero-bandwidth clearsMCALLISTER DAVID KIRK·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 27, 2012·1 cites·20 claims
- 2266US2025061537A1Storage of levels for bottom level bounding volume hierarchyQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 2365US9406149B2Selecting and representing multiple compression methodsMCALLISTER DAVID KIRK·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 2, 2016·2 cites·22 claims
- 2465US7847802B1Apparatus, method, and system for coalesced Z data and color data for raster operationsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 7, 2010·1 cites·16 claims
- 2564US12437465B2Bounding volume hierarchy leaf node compressionADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2022·Granted Oct 7, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 2663US2025350764A1Geometry Conversion to Dense Geometry FormatADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 2762US2025131639A1Dense Geometry FormatADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 2862US2025131641A1Format and mechanism for efficient geometry specificationADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 2962US2025131640A1Intersection Testing on Dense Geometry Data using Triangle PrefilteringADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3062US2025391058A1Interpolated geometry in dense geometry format encodingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3161US11893677B1Bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) widening based on node compressibilityQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 6, 2024·0 cites·30 claims
- 3260US12159343B2Accelerated bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversal for shadow raysQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 3, 2024·0 cites·14 claims
- 3359US2025200865A1Ray tracing of displaced micro meshes using a bounding prism hierarchyADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 3459US2025218104A1Systems and methods for detecting ray intersections with displaced micro-meshesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 3557US12205223B2Bounding volume hierarchy leaf node compressionQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 21, 2025·0 cites·28 claims
- 3657US2025200890A1Prism volumes for displaced subdivided trianglesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 3756US2025308134A1Deferred any hit shader execution for reduced divergenceADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3856US2025391096A1Ray tracing stack node traversal reductionADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3955US12045928B2Ray tracing processorQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jul 23, 2024·0 cites·29 claims
- 4055US2025173812A1Dynamically Allocated Memory-Backed Traversal Stack for Ray Tracing HardwareATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4154US12100186B2Leaf node compression with compressibility predictionQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Sep 24, 2024·0 cites·27 claims
- 4254US11763523B2Compressed THIT stack for hardware-accelerated GPU ray tracingQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Sep 19, 2023·0 cites·30 claims
- 4354US8059131B1System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled graphics memoryBITTEL DONALD A·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 15, 2011·2 cites·5 claims
- 4454US2025209723A1System and Method for Low-precision Ray TestsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4552US9530189B2Alternate reduction ratios and threshold mechanisms for framebuffer compressionNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 27, 2016·0 cites·27 claims
- 4650US2024203034A1Box splitting for bounding volume hierarchiesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 4750US2024203033A1Intersectable instance nodes for ray tracing acceleration structure nodesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 4849US12056819B2Compressed traversal stack for GPU ray tracingQUALCOMM INC·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 6, 2024·0 cites·27 claims
- 4936US2013033507A1System, method, and computer program product for constructing an acceleration structureNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
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