Issued Patents All Time
Showing 25 most recent of 26 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9183607 | Scoreboard cache coherence in a graphics pipeline | Justin Michael Mahan, Edward A. Hutchins, Kevin P Acken, Michael J. M. Toksvig | 2015-11-10 |
| 8860722 | Early Z scoreboard tracking system and method | Brian Keith Cabral, Edward A. Hutchins | 2014-10-14 |
| 8773447 | Tag logic scoreboarding in a graphics pipeline | — | 2014-07-08 |
| 8564598 | Parallelogram unified primitive description for rasterization | Edward A. Hutchins, William T. Warner | 2013-10-22 |
| 8547395 | Writing coverage information to a framebuffer in a computer graphics system | Edward A. Hutchins, Gary C. King, Michael J. M. Toksvig | 2013-10-01 |
| 8325203 | Optimal caching for virtual coverage antialiasing | — | 2012-12-04 |
| 8098257 | Filtering unit for floating-point texture data | Walter E. Donovan, Anders M. Kugler | 2012-01-17 |
| 8040357 | Quotient remainder coverage system and method | Edward A. Hutchins | 2011-10-18 |
| 8004522 | Using coverage information in computer graphics | Michael J. M. Toksvig, Brian Keith Cabral, Edward A. Hutchins, Gary C. King | 2011-08-23 |
| 7996622 | Detecting unused cache lines | Michael J. M. Toksvig | 2011-08-09 |
| 7911470 | Fairly arbitrating between clients | John S. Montrym | 2011-03-22 |
| 7876332 | Shader that conditionally updates a framebuffer in a computer graphics system | Edward A. Hutchins, Gary C. King, Michael J. M. Toksvig | 2011-01-25 |
| 7825935 | System, method and computer program product for using textures as instructions for graphics processing | Edward A. Hutchins, Alexander L. Minkin, George Easton Scott, III | 2010-11-02 |
| 7821518 | Fairly arbitrating between clients | John S. Montrym | 2010-10-26 |
| 7817165 | Selecting real sample locations for ownership of virtual sample locations in a computer graphics system | Edward A. Hutchins, Gary C. King, Michael J. M. Toksvig | 2010-10-19 |
| 7808512 | Bounding region accumulation for graphics rendering | Edward A. Hutchins, Gary C. King, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Mark J. Kilgard | 2010-10-05 |
| 7705846 | Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline | Alexander L. Minkin | 2010-04-27 |
| 7697009 | Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline | Alexander L. Minkin | 2010-04-13 |
| 7692654 | Nondeterministic pixel location and identification in a raster unit of a graphics pipeline | — | 2010-04-06 |
| 7589741 | Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline | Alexander L. Minkin | 2009-09-15 |
| 7565490 | Out of order graphics L2 cache | John S. Montrym, Patrick R. Marchand | 2009-07-21 |
| 7417637 | Fairly arbitrating between clients | John S. Montrym | 2008-08-26 |
| 7355603 | Filtering unit for floating-point texture data | Walter E. Donovan, Anders M. Kugler | 2008-04-08 |
| 7245302 | Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline | Alexander L. Minkin | 2007-07-17 |
| 6980209 | Method and system for scalable, dataflow-based, programmable processing of graphics data | Alexander L. Minkin, Bryon S. Nordquist, Edward A. Hutchins, Mark Y. Tian, George Easton Scott III | 2005-12-27 |