RH

Richard E. Hessel

Apple: 17 patents #1,913 of 18,612Top 15%
CR Cray Research: 3 patents #54 of 208Top 30%
SP Supercomputer Systems Limited Partnership: 2 patents #18 of 59Top 35%
SG Silicon Graphics: 1 patents #362 of 758Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #155,650 of 4,157,543Top 4%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 25 most recent of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
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
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
7164426 Method and apparatus for generating texture Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Joseph P. Grass, Abbas Rashid, Bo Hong, Abraham Mammen 2007-01-16
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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