NVIDIA Patent Application Trends in 2024

NVIDIA Patent Filing Activity

Summary of NVIDIA Patent Filing Activity in 2024

NVIDIA's patent filing activity in 2024 shows a focus on advanced graphics, AI, and autonomous systems technologies. The top 10 technology areas for patent applications include:

1. Ray tracing (18 patents)

2. API error handling (16 patents)

3. Computational models (11 patents)

4. Sensor data processing (7 patents)

5. Image perturbation removal (6 patents)

6. Mesh topology generation (6 patents)

7. API controllers (6 patents)

8. Graph modification (6 patents)

9. Memory transactions (6 patents)

10. AI hardware (5 patents)

Emerging technology areas with one patent each include pose detection for autonomous systems, hardware latency monitoring, workload assignment techniques, dynamic inferencing for machine learning models, and various image processing and object detection technologies.

These patent trends indicate NVIDIA's ongoing innovation in graphics processing, AI and machine learning, autonomous systems, and hardware optimization for these applications.

NVIDIA Patent Application Pace 2024

Top 10 Technology Areas NVIDIA is Filing for Patents in

• G06T15/06 (Ray tracing)
  • Count: 18 patents
  • Example: EARLY RELEASE OF RESOURCES IN RAY TRACING HARDWARE
• G06F9/544 (API errors)
  • Count: 16 patents
  • Example: APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE STORAGE OF ACCELERATOR ERRORS
• G06N3/08 (Computational models)
  • Count: 11 patents
  • Example: DISTANCE TO OBSTACLE DETECTION IN AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS
• G06T1/20 (Sensor data)
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: FRACTIONALIZED TRANSFERS OF SENSOR DATA FOR STREAMING AND LATENCY-SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS
• G06T5/002 (Image perturbation)
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: NEURAL NETWORK-BASED PERTURBATION REMOVAL
• G06T17/20 (Mesh topology)
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: MESH TOPOLOGY GENERATION USING PARALLEL PROCESSING
• G06F9/547 (API controllers)
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE A CONTROLLER TO A DEVICE IN AN ACCESS NETWORK
• G06F9/4881 (Graph modification)
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: GRAPH MODIFICATION
• G06T1/60 (Memory transactions)
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE MEMORY TRANSACTION
• G06N3/084 (AI hardware)
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: ANNOTATING HIGH DEFINITION MAP DATA WITH SEMANTIC LABELS

Emerging Technology Areas

• G01C21/26 (Pose detection)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: INTERSECTION POSE DETECTION IN AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS
• G06F3/0613 (Latency monitoring)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: HARDWARE LATENCY MONITORING FOR MEMORY DEVICE INPUT/OUTPUT REQUESTS
• G06F9/3824 (Workload assignment)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: WORKLOAD ASSIGNMENT TECHNIQUE
• G06F9/5038 (Dynamic inferencing)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: TECHNIQUES FOR BALANCING DYNAMIC INFERENCING BY MACHINE LEARNING MODELS
• G06F11/3409 (Application execution)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: APPLICATION EXECUTION ALLOCATION USING MACHINE LEARNING
• G06F11/3644 (Error testing)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR TESTING FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
• G06T7/30 (Image processing)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: IMAGE PROCESSING USING NEURAL NETWORKS, WITH IMAGE REGISTRATION
• G06V10/56 (Artifact removal)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: REMOVING ARTIFACTS USING DITHERING COMPENSATION IN IMAGE STREAMING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
• G06V20/54 (Object detection)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: SCENARIO RECREATION THROUGH OBJECT DETECTION AND 3D VISUALIZATION IN A MULTI-SENSOR ENVIRONMENT
• H03K19/1776 (Unified receiver)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: DIGITALLY CONTROLLED UNIFIED RECEIVER FOR MULTI-RANK SYSTEM