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Stephen L. Dodgen — 17 Patents

Apple: 11 patents #2,966 of 18,612Top 20%
ABApplied Biosystems: 3 patents #296 of 690Top 45%
GRGranville-Phillips: 1 patents #4 of 7Top 60%
SLSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories: 1 patents #230 of 418Top 60%
Pullman, WA: #20 of 521 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #5,777 of 76,902 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Stephen L. Dodgen has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in October 2016. Stephen L. Dodgen ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Stephen L. Dodgen in Pullman, WA, US.

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Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9479393 Relay configuration systems and methods Tony J. Lee, Michael H. Patrick, Lee Underwood 2016-10-25
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
7680605 System and method for discovery of biological instruments Kai Yung, Sylvia H. Fang, John Rohrlich 2010-03-16
7379823 System and method for discovery of biological instruments Kai Yung, Sylvia H. Fang, John Rohrlich 2008-05-27
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
6909974 System and method for discovery of biological instruments Kai Yung, Sylvia H. Fang, John Rohrlich 2005-06-21
6771264 Method and apparatus for performing tangent space lighting and bump mapping in a deferred shading graphics processor Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Joseph P. Bratt, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Nathan Tuck, Richard E. Hessel 2004-08-03 $101,726,000
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
6664959 Method and apparatus for culling in a graphics processor with deferred shading Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Emerson S. Fang, Hengwei Hsu, Jason Redgrave +1 more 2003-12-16 $17,812,000
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
6577305 Apparatus and method for performing setup operations in a 3-D graphics pipeline using unified primitive descriptors Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, George Cuan +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, Richard E. Hessel +1 more 2003-06-10 $18,665,000
6476807 Method and apparatus for performing conservative hidden surface removal in a graphics processor with deferred shading Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Richard E. Hessel, Emerson S. Fang, Hengwei Hsu, Jason Redgrave +1 more 2002-11-05 $18,743,000
6453329 Method for translating distilled filed for handling of large data files and programs by computing devices with limited processing capability 2002-09-17
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
4636680 Vacuum gauge Daniel G. Bills, Paul C. Arnold, Craig Brainerd Van Cleve 1987-01-13