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Mark Leather — 51 Patents

AMD: 32 patents #299 of 9,280Top 4%
Nintendo Co.: 15 patents #110 of 1,476Top 8%
SGSilicon Graphics: 2 patents #230 of 758Top 35%
Microsoft: 2 patents #17,644 of 40,388Top 45%
Santa Clara, CA: #203 of 9,301 inventorsTop 3%
California: #7,783 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #51,932 of 4,157,543Top 2%
51 Patents All Time
Mark Leather has been granted 51 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2025. Mark Leather ranks #51,932 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Mark Leather in Santa Clara, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 51 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12361628 Configurable multiple-die graphics processing unit Mark Fowler, Samuel D. Naffziger, Michael Mantor 2025-07-15
12299413 Dual vector arithmetic logic unit Bin He, Brian D. Emberling, Michael Mantor 2025-05-13
12205218 Spatial partitioning in a multi-tenancy graphics processing unit Michael Mantor 2025-01-21
12169896 Graphics primitives and positions through memory buffers Todd Martin, Tad Robert Litwiller, Nishank Pathak, Randy Wayne Ramsey, Michael Mantor +2 more 2024-12-17 $286,725,000
11675568 Dual vector arithmetic logic unit Bin He, Brian D. Emberling, Michael Mantor 2023-06-13 $166,732,000
11295507 Spatial partitioning in a multi-tenancy graphics processing unit Michael Mantor 2022-04-05 $280,939,000
10817302 Processor support for bypassing vector source operands Jiasheng Chen, Bin He, Michael Mantor, Yunxiao Zou 2020-10-27 $44,640,000
10579388 Policies for shader resource allocation in a shader core Robert Scott Hartog, Michael Mantor, Rex Eldon McCrary, Sebastien Nussbaum, Philip J. Rogers +2 more 2020-03-03 $32,225,000
10474468 Indicating instruction scheduling mode for processing wavefront portions Michael Mantor, Brian D. Emberling, Mark Fowler 2019-11-12 $44,011,000
10242420 Preemptive context switching of processes on an accelerated processing device (APD) based on time quanta Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph C. Taylor, Michael Mantor, Kevin J. McGrath, Sebastien Nussbaum +4 more 2019-03-26 $28,977,000
9507632 Preemptive context switching of processes on ac accelerated processing device (APD) based on time quanta Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Kevin J. McGrath, Sebastien Nussbaum +4 more 2016-11-29 $4,439,000
9329893 Method for resuming an APD wavefront in which a subset of elements have faulted Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Thomas R. Woller, Kevin J. McGrath +4 more 2016-05-03 $2,239,000
9299121 Preemptive context switching Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Kevin J. McGrath, Sebastien Nussbaum +4 more 2016-03-29 $707,000
9256465 Process device context switching Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Kevin J. McGrath, Sebastien Nussbaum +4 more 2016-02-09 $571,000
9122522 Software mechanisms for managing task scheduling on an accelerated processing device (APD) Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Thomas R. Woller, Kevin J. McGrath +4 more 2015-09-01 $963,000
8963933 Method for urgency-based preemption of a process Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Kevin J. McGrath, Sebastien Nussbaum +3 more 2015-02-24 $1,146,000
8959319 Executing first instructions for smaller set of SIMD threads diverging upon conditional branch instruction Norman Rubin, Brian D. Emberling, Michael Mantor 2015-02-17 $2,156,000
8933945 Dividing work among multiple graphics pipelines using a super-tiling technique Eric Demers 2015-01-13
8933942 Partitioning resources of a processor Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Thomas R. Woller, Kevin J. McGrath +2 more 2015-01-13 $1,493,000
8803891 Method for preempting graphics tasks to accommodate compute tasks in an accelerated processing device (APD) Robert Scott Hartog, Ralph Clay Taylor, Michael Mantor, Sebastien Nussbaum, Rex Eldon McCrary +2 more 2014-08-12 $4,281,000
8607247 Method and system for workitem synchronization Lee W. Howes, Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Clair Houston, Michael Mantor, Norman Rubin +1 more 2013-12-10 $2,962,000
8593465 Handling of extra contexts for shader constants Brian D. Emberling 2013-11-26 $3,520,000
8195882 Shader complex with distributed level one cache system and centralized level two cache Anthony P. DeLaurier, Robert Scott Hartog, Michael Mantor, Mark Fowler, Marcos P. Zini 2012-06-05 $2,975,000
8156314 Incremental state updates Brian D. Emberling 2012-04-10 $5,913,000
7920141 Method and apparatus for rasterizer interpolation 2011-04-05