G06T 15/06
Ray-tracing
G06T15/06 (Ray-tracing) appears on 2,108 US grants and 2,644 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06T- Granted patents
- 2,108
- Published applications
- 2,644
- Assignees
- 552
- Inventors
- 3,278
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 6 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 6 | 3 |
| 2003 | 6 | 7 |
| 2004 | 5 | 7 |
| 2005 | 6 | 26 |
| 2006 | 14 | 20 |
| 2007 | 23 | 23 |
| 2008 | 13 | 49 |
| 2009 | 15 | 49 |
| 2010 | 23 | 38 |
| 2011 | 28 | 24 |
| 2012 | 53 | 31 |
| 2013 | 42 | 44 |
| 2014 | 45 | 61 |
| 2015 | 64 | 75 |
| 2016 | 60 | 78 |
| 2017 | 82 | 95 |
| 2018 | 86 | 125 |
| 2019 | 122 | 136 |
| 2020 | 184 | 194 |
| 2021 | 170 | 210 |
| 2022 | 182 | 275 |
| 2023 | 208 | 243 |
| 2024 | 203 | 286 |
| 2025 | 234 | 332 |
| 2026 | 189 | 213 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Denoising images of dynamically displaced parametric surfaces8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311301 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Graphics processing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311416 A1Arm Limited
- Systems and methods for generating and using primary ray-based implicit neural representations of three-dimensional objects1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301304 A1Google Inc.
- Decoupled ray traversal population using ray queues1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301305 A1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Systems and methods for synthetic entity augmentation in autonomous vehicle perception systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301306 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Creating a three-dimensional model from two-dimensional images265US 6,278,460 B1Point Cloud, Inc. · 2001
- Method for programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware256US 10,885,698 B2NVIDIA Corporation · 2021
- Method and system for digital plenoptic imaging246US 6,009,188 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1999
- Apparatus and method for volume processing and rendering225US 7,133,041 B2The Research Foundation of State University of New York · 2006
- Geometry processor for graphics display system182US 4,862,392 AStar Technologies Inc. · 1989