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Zack Waters — 15 Patents

Intel: 14 patents #2,935 of 30,777Top 10%
AMD: 1 patents #6,659 of 9,280Top 75%
Portland, OR: #1,218 of 9,213 inventorsTop 15%
Oregon: #2,909 of 28,073 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Zack Waters has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in March 2025. Zack Waters ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Zack Waters in Portland, OR, US.

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Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12243157 Inferred shading mechanism Selvakumar Panneer, Mrutunjayya Mrutunjayya, Carl S. Marshall, Ravishankar Iyer 2025-03-04
11978155 Inferred shading mechanism Selvakumar Panneer, Mrutunjayya Mrutunjayya, Carl S. Marshall, Ravishankar Iyer 2024-05-07 $26,756,000
11960405 Multi-tile memory management mechanism Travis T. Schluessler, Michael Apodaca, Ankur N. Shah 2024-04-16 $37,256,000
11710269 Position-based rendering apparatus and method for multi-die/GPU graphics processing Travis T. Schluessler, Michael Apodaca, Daniel Johnston, Jason M. Surprise, Prasoonkumar Surti +5 more 2023-07-25 $28,608,000
11580027 Multi-tile memory management mechanism Travis T. Schluessler, Michael Apodaca, Ankur N. Shah 2023-02-14 $12,790,000
11443406 High-speed resume for GPU applications Travis T. Schluessler, Charles Moidel, Michael Apodaca, Murali Ramadoss 2022-09-13 $14,653,000
11403805 Position-based rendering apparatus and method for multi-die/GPU graphics processing Travis T. Schluessler, Michael Apodaca, Daniel Johnston, Jason M. Surprise, Prasoonkumar Surti +5 more 2022-08-02 $13,520,000
11037269 High-speed resume for GPU applications Travis T. Schluessler, Charles Moidel, Michael Apodaca, Murali Ramadoss 2021-06-15 $33,380,000
10997771 Position-based rendering apparatus and method for multi-die/GPU graphics processing Travis T. Schluessler, Michael Apodaca, Daniel Johnston, Jason M. Surprise, Prasoonkumar Surti +5 more 2021-05-04 $37,420,000
10733692 Interface apparatus and method resilient to graphics hardware changes Slawomir Grajewski, Jason M. Surprise, Mike Apodaca 2020-08-04 $32,661,000
10733693 High vertex count geometry work distribution for multi-tile GPUs Travis T. Schluessler, Michael Apodaca, Jason M. Surprise, Peter L. Doyle 2020-08-04 $32,661,000
10026150 Graphics processing of a vertex buffer using a relative index buffer Jacob N. Smith, Jason M. Surprise 2018-07-17 $22,904,000
9824413 Sort-free threading model for a multi-threaded graphics pipeline Jason M. Surprise 2017-11-21 $11,290,000
9536278 Graphics processing of a vertex buffer using a relative index buffer Jacob N. Smith, Jason M. Surprise 2017-01-03 $8,191,000
7945416 Software or hardware test apparatus and method Nicholas Haemel 2011-05-17