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Robert A. Drebin — 31 Patents

Apple: 10 patents #3,225 of 18,612Top 20%
SGSilicon Graphics: 10 patents #22 of 758Top 3%
Nintendo Co.: 6 patents #313 of 1,476Top 25%
GHGraphic Properties Holdings: 2 patents #9 of 46Top 20%
Disney: 2 patents #2,704 of 6,686Top 45%
AMD: 1 patents #7,083 of 9,280Top 80%
Palo Alto, CA: #730 of 9,675 inventorsTop 8%
California: #16,606 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Robert A. Drebin has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in September 2025. Robert A. Drebin ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Robert A. Drebin in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12422913 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Patrick Law, Keith Cox, James S. Ismail 2025-09-23
11513585 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Patrick Law, Keith Cox, James S. Ismail 2022-11-29 $175,082,000
11009938 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Patrick Law, Keith Cox, James S. Ismail 2021-05-18 $223,963,000
10120728 Graphical processing unit (GPU) implementing a plurality of virtual GPUs James Wang 2018-11-06 $86,987,000
10114446 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Patrick Law, Keith Cox, James S. Ismail 2018-10-30 $119,981,000
9727385 Graphical processing unit (GPU) implementing a plurality of virtual GPUs James Wang 2017-08-08 $69,938,000
9652560 Non-blocking memory management unit James Wang, Patrick Law 2017-05-16 $59,475,000
9600288 Result bypass cache Terence M. Potter, Timothy A. Olson, James S. Blomgren, Douglas C. Youngwith, Jon A. Loschke 2017-03-21 $48,833,000
9494994 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Patrick Law, Keith Cox, James S. Ismail 2016-11-15 $67,478,000
8924752 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Patrick Law, Keith Cox, James S. Ismail 2014-12-30 $90,841,000
8610729 Floating point computer system with fog John M. Airey, Mark S. Peercy, John S. Montrym, David L. Dignam, Christopher J. Migdal +1 more 2013-12-17
8144158 Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering John M. Airey, Mark S. Peercy, John S. Montrym, David L. Dignam, Christopher J. Migdal +1 more 2012-03-27
7526125 Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data David Wang, Christopher J. Migdal 2009-04-28
7518615 Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering John M. Airey, Mark S. Peercy, John S. Montrym, David L. Dignam, Christopher J. Migdal +1 more 2009-04-14 $256,000
7447869 Method and apparatus for fragment processing in a virtual memory system W. Fritz Kruger, Wade K. Smith 2008-11-04
7330587 Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data David Wang, Christopher J. Migdal 2008-02-12 $2,189,000
7307638 Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system Mark Leather, Timothy J. Van Hook 2007-12-11
7176919 Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system Timothy J. Van Hook, Patrick Law, Mark Leather, Matthew Komsthoeft 2007-02-13
7058218 Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data David Wang, Christopher J. Migdal 2006-06-06
7034828 Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system Timothy J. Van Hook, Patrick Law, Mark Leather, Matthew Komsthoeft 2006-04-25
7002591 Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system Mark Leather, Timothy J. Van Hook 2006-02-21
6664958 Z-texturing Mark Leather, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Patrick Law, Howard Cheng, Robert Moore 2003-12-16
6650327 Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering John M. Airey, Mark S. Peercy, John S. Montrym, David L. Dignam, Christopher J. Migdal +1 more 2003-11-18 $1,064,000
6639595 Achromatic lighting in a graphics system and method Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Martin Hollis, Eric Demers 2003-10-28
5877771 Method and apparatus for supersampling based on the local rate of change in texture Michael T. Jones 1999-03-02 $20,857,000