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Caustic Graphics, Inc.

19Patents
19Active
19Granted
49Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 17, 2007 → Sep 11, 2012 · 10 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7830379B2 Architectures for parallelized intersection testing and shading for ray-tracing rendering Physics 47 Active
US8018457B2 Ray tracing system architectures and methods Physics 27 Active
US7969434B2 Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for accelerating intersection testing in ray-tracing rendering Physics 21 Active
US8619079B2 Ray tracing system architectures and methods Physics 14 Active
US8217935B2 Apparatus and method for ray tracing with block floating point data Physics 10 Active
US8441482B2 Systems and methods for self-intersection avoidance in ray tracing Physics 10 Active
US8203559B2 Architectures for parallelized intersection testing and shading for ray-tracing rendering Physics 9 Active
US8237711B2 Tracing of shader-generated ray groups using coupled intersection testing Physics 7 Active
US8692834B2 Graphics processor with non-blocking concurrent architecture Physics 4 Active
US8482561B2 Systems and methods for a ray tracing shader API Physics 4 Active
US8421801B2 Ray tracing using ray-specific clipping Physics 3 Active
US8593458B2 Systems and methods of multidimensional query resolution and computation organization Physics 2 Active
US8063902B2 Method and apparatus for increasing efficiency of transmission and/or storage of rays for parallelized ray intersection testing Physics 2 Active
US8300049B2 Ray tracing system architectures and methods Physics 1 Active
US8674987B2 Dynamic ray population control Physics 0 Active
US8120609B2 Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for light energy accounting in ray tracing Physics 0 Active
US7932905B2 Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for light energy accounting in ray tracing Physics 0 Active
US8203555B2 Systems and methods for concurrent ray tracing Physics 0 Active
US8502820B2 Architectures for concurrent graphics processing operations Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.