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John W. Howson — 145 Patents

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St Albans, MD: #1 of 2 inventorsTop 50%
Overall (All Time): #6,603 of 4,157,543Top 1%
145 Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 145 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12020362 Methods and control stream generators for generating a control stream for a tile group in a graphics processing system Diego Jesus, Panagiotis Velentzas, Robert Brigg, Xile Yang 2024-06-25
11989816 Allocation of resources to tasks Panagiotis Velentzas, Richard Broadhurst 2024-05-21
11954759 Tile-based graphics Steven Fishwick 2024-04-09
11928776 Processing primitives which have unresolved fragments in a graphics processing system 2024-03-12
11922555 Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing system Diego Jesus, Panagiotis Velentzas, Robert Brigg, Xile Yang 2024-03-05
11922534 Tile based computer graphics Steven Fishwick 2024-03-05
11915363 Transformed geometry data cache for graphics processing systems Robert Brigg, Xile Yang 2024-02-27
11887240 Multi-rendering in graphics processing units using render progression checks Steven Fishwick 2024-01-30
11861792 Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system 2024-01-02
11836849 Primitive block generator for graphics processing systems Xile Yang, Robert Brigg 2023-12-05
11823324 Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives Xile Yang 2023-11-21
11798219 Topology preservation in a graphics pipeline by analyzing a geometry shader 2023-10-24
11770048 Handheld power tool with a brushless electric motor John C. Vanko, Michael K. Forster, Matthew J. Velderman 2023-09-26
11756256 Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems Steven J. Clohset, Ali Rabbani 2023-09-12
11734788 Task execution in a SIMD processing unit with parallel groups of processing lanes Jonathan Redshaw, Yoong Chert Foo 2023-08-22
11727525 Task merging Roger Hernando Buch, Panagiotis Velentzas, Richard Broadhurst, Xile Yang 2023-08-15
11710268 Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space Richard Broadhurst, Steven Fishwick 2023-07-25
11682163 Using tiling depth information in hidden surface removal in a graphics processing system Richard Broadhurst, Robert Theed 2023-06-20
11677927 Stereoscopic graphics processing 2023-06-13
11676339 Scalable parallel tessellation 2023-06-13
11676323 Controlling rendering operations by shader buffer identification Aroun Demeure, Steven Fishwick 2023-06-13
11663771 Transformed geometry data cache for graphics processing systems Robert Brigg, Xile Yang 2023-05-30
11657565 Hidden culling in tile-based computer generated images Xile Yang, Simon Fenney 2023-05-23
11640648 Graphics processing systems with expansion transformation stage masks Robert Brigg, Xile Yang 2023-05-02
11610368 Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system 2023-03-21