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Sam Ng — 7 Patents

Apple: 7 patents #4,315 of 18,612Top 25%
Fremont, CA: #2,410 of 9,298 inventorsTop 30%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Sam Ng has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in October 2010. Sam Ng ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Sam Ng in Fremont, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7808503 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt +19 more 2010-10-05 $111,667,000
7167181 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt +19 more 2007-01-23 $79,943,000
6717576 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt +19 more 2004-04-06 $28,082,000
6614444 Apparatus and method for fragment operations in a 3D-graphics pipeline Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Sushma S. Trivedi, Lindy Fung, Richard E. Hessel, Jack Benkual 2003-09-02 $14,901,000
6597363 Graphics processor with deferred shading Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt +11 more 2003-07-22 $53,686,000
6268875 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt +11 more 2001-07-31 $42,779,000
6229553 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt +11 more 2001-05-08 $52,146,000