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Richard E. Hessel — 26 Patents

Apple: 17 patents #1,950 of 18,612Top 15%
CRCray Research: 3 patents #54 of 208Top 30%
SPSupercomputer Systems Limited Partnership: 2 patents #18 of 59Top 35%
SGSilicon Graphics: 1 patents #400 of 758Top 55%
Altoona, WI: #2 of 31 inventorsTop 7%
Wisconsin: #1,286 of 40,088 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Richard E. Hessel has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in January 2013. Richard E. Hessel ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Richard E. Hessel in Altoona, WI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2003.peak 71992: 1 patents19921993: 2 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 2 patents2001: 4 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 7 patents20032004: 3 patents2007: 2 patents20072009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8356144 Vector processor system Chetana N. Keltcher, Nathan Tuck, Korbin S. Van Dyke 2013-01-15
7808503 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +19 more 2010-10-05 $111,667,000
7543119 Vector processor Nathan Tuck, Korbin S. Van Dyke, Chetana N. Keltcher 2009-06-02
7167181 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +19 more 2007-01-23 $79,943,000
7164426 Method and apparatus for generating texture Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Joseph P. Grass, Abbas Rashid, Bo Hong, Abraham Mammen 2007-01-16 $163,161,000
6771264 Method and apparatus for performing tangent space lighting and bump mapping in a deferred shading graphics processor Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Stephen L. Dodgen, Joseph P. Bratt, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Nathan Tuck 2004-08-03 $101,726,000
6717576 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +19 more 2004-04-06 $28,082,000
6693639 Graphics processor with pipeline state storage and retrieval Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jack Benkual, Shun Wai Go, Sushma S. Trivedi, Joseph P. Bratt 2004-02-17 $20,950,000
6664959 Method and apparatus for culling in a graphics processor with deferred shading Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Stephen L. Dodgen, Emerson S. Fang, Hengwei Hsu, Jason Redgrave +1 more 2003-12-16 $17,812,000
6614444 Apparatus and method for fragment operations in a 3D-graphics pipeline Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Sushma S. Trivedi, Sam Ng, Lindy Fung, Jack Benkual 2003-09-02 $14,901,000
6597363 Graphics processor with deferred shading Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +11 more 2003-07-22 $53,686,000
6577305 Apparatus and method for performing setup operations in a 3-D graphics pipeline using unified primitive descriptors Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, George Cuan, Stephen L. Dodgen +3 more 2003-06-10 $18,665,000
6577317 Apparatus and method for geometry operations in a 3D-graphics pipeline Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jack Benkual, Vaughn T. Arnold, Tuan D. Nguyen, Stephen L. Dodgen +1 more 2003-06-10 $18,665,000
6552723 System, apparatus and method for spatially sorting image data in a three-dimensional graphics pipeline Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jason Redgrave, Sushma S. Trivedi 2003-04-22 $13,542,000
6525737 Graphics processor with pipeline state storage and retrieval Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jack Benkual, Shun Wai Go, Sushma S. Trivedi, Joseph P. Bratt 2003-02-25 $46,510,000
6476807 Method and apparatus for performing conservative hidden surface removal in a graphics processor with deferred shading Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Stephen L. Dodgen, Emerson S. Fang, Hengwei Hsu, Jason Redgrave +1 more 2002-11-05 $18,743,000
6288730 Method and apparatus for generating texture Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Joseph P. Grass, Abbas Rashid, Bo Hong, Abraham Mammen 2001-09-11
6268875 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +11 more 2001-07-31 $42,779,000
6229553 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +11 more 2001-05-08 $52,146,000
6195676 Method and apparatus for user side scheduling in a multiprocessor operating system program that implements distributive scheduling of processes George A. Spix, Diane M. Wengelski, Stuart Hawkinson, Mark D. Johnson, Jeremiah D. Burke +16 more 2001-02-27 $7,416,000
5524255 Method and apparatus for accessing global registers in a multiprocessor system Douglas R. Beard, George A. Spix, Edward C. Miller, Robert E. Strout, II, Anthony R. Schooler +4 more 1996-06-04 $5,416,000
5499356 Method and apparatus for a multiprocessor resource lockout instruction Roger E. Eckert, Andrew Everett Phelps, George A. Spix, Jimmie R. Wilson 1996-03-12 $5,956,000
5381536 Method and apparatus for separate mark and wait instructions for processors having multiple memory ports Andrew Everett Phelps, Roger E. Eckert 1995-01-10 $3,614,000
5208914 Method and apparatus for non-sequential resource access Jimmie R. Wilson, Douglas R. Beard, Steve S. Chen, Roger E. Eckert, Andrew Everett Phelps +2 more 1993-05-04
5179702 System and method for controlling a highly parallel multiprocessor using an anarchy based scheduler for parallel execution thread scheduling George A. Spix, Diane M. Wengelski, Stuart Hawkinson, Mark D. Johnson, Jeremiah D. Burke +16 more 1993-01-12