Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Alexei V. Bourd

32Patents
5h-index
49Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 30, 2004 → Oct 16, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7737985B2 Pixel cache for 3D graphics circuitry Physics 33 Active
US9652284B2 GPU divergence barrier Physics 16 Active
US9626234B2 Inter-processor communication techniques in a multiple-processor computing platform Physics 15 Active
US10026145B2 Resource sharing on shader processor of GPU Physics 7 Active
US9645866B2 Inter-processor communication techniques in a multiple-processor computing platform Physics 6 Active
US9218289B2 Multi-core compute cache coherency with a release consistency memory ordering model Physics 5 Active
US8269775B2 Discarding of vertex points during two-dimensional graphics rendering using three-dimensional graphics hardware Physics 4 Active
US8355028B2 Scheme for varying packing and linking in graphics systems Physics 4 Active
US8937622B2 Inter-processor communication techniques in a multiple-processor computing platform Physics 4 Active
US11861785B2 Generation of tight world space bounding regions Physics 3 Active
US10210593B2 Adaptive context switching Physics 2 Active
US7505043B2 Cache efficient rasterization of graphics data Physics 2 Expired
US8760457B2 Data access tool for programmable graphics hardware Physics 2 Active
US9430807B2 Execution model for heterogeneous computing Physics 2 Active
US11508109B2 Methods and apparatus for machine learning rendering Physics 1 Active
US9804995B2 Computational resource pipelining in general purpose graphics processing unit Physics 1 Active
US8884972B2 Graphics processor with arithmetic and elementary function units Physics 1 Active
US9019289B2 Execution of graphics and non-graphics applications on a graphics processing unit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9075913B2 Validation of applications for graphics processing unit Physics 1 Active
US10241799B2 Out-of-order command execution with sliding windows to maintain completion statuses Physics 1 Active
US9256915B2 Graphics processing unit buffer management Physics 1 Active
US9230518B2 Fault-tolerant preemption mechanism at arbitrary control points for graphics processing Physics 0 Active
US12249021B2 Accelerated bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversal for ray tracing Physics 0 Active
US10055342B2 Hardware-based atomic operations for supporting inter-task communication Physics 0 Active
US12045928B2 Ray tracing processor Physics 0 Active

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