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Charles N. Boyd — 37 Patents

Microsoft: 37 patents #586 of 40,388Top 2%
Woodinville, WA: #67 of 1,504 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #1,864 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Charles N. Boyd has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in July 2020. Charles N. Boyd ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Charles N. Boyd in Woodinville, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2010.peak 62004: 3 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 5 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 6 patents20102011: 6 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10720091 Content mastering with an energy-preserving bloom operator during playback of high dynamic range video 2020-07-21 $123,214,000
10015282 Context-based selective downloading of application resources Jianye Lu 2018-07-03 $70,231,000
9779466 GPU operation Anuj B. Gosalia 2017-10-03 $44,178,000
9342486 Fast computation of general fourier transforms on graphics processing units David Brandon Lloyd, Naga K. Govindaraju 2016-05-17 $38,879,000
9183651 Target independent rasterization Shai Hinitz, Amar Patel, Blake D. Pelton 2015-11-10 $38,752,000
9064334 Systems and methods for providing an enhanced graphics pipeline Amar Patel, David R. Blythe, Jeff M. J. Noyle, Michael A. Toelle, Stephen H. Wright 2015-06-23 $32,988,000
8823718 Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding techniques Michele B. Boland, Michael A. Toelle, Anantha Rao Kancherla, Amar Patel, Iouri Tarassov +1 more 2014-09-02 $31,345,000
8587602 GPU texture tile detail control Mark S. Grossman, Allison W. Klein, Craig Peeper 2013-11-19 $34,230,000
8379035 Systems and methods for providing intermediate targets in a graphics system Michele B. Boland, Anantha Rao Kancherla 2013-02-19 $10,297,000
8305381 Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding techniques Michele B. Boland, Michael A. Toelle, Anantha Rao Kancherla, Amar Patel, Iouri Tarassov +1 more 2012-11-06 $20,259,000
8274517 Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding techniques Michele B. Boland, Michael A. Toelle, Anantha Rao Kancherla, Amar Patel, Iouri Tarassov +1 more 2012-09-25 $17,180,000
8063909 Systems and methods for providing intermediate targets in a graphics system Michele B. Boland, Anantha Rao Kancherla 2011-11-22 $15,326,000
8035646 Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding techniques Michele B. Boland, Michael A. Toelle, Anantha Rao Kancherla, Amar Patel, Iouri Tarassov +1 more 2011-10-11 $23,760,000
7978197 Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding techniques Michele B. Boland, Michael A. Toelle, Anantha Rao Kancherla, Amar Patel, Iouri Tarassov +1 more 2011-07-12 $14,655,000
7978205 Systems and methods for providing an enhanced graphics pipeline Amar Patel, David R. Blythe, Jeff M. J. Noyle, Michael A. Toelle, Stephen H. Wright 2011-07-12 $14,655,000
7965288 Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system Michael A. Toelle 2011-06-21 $22,222,000
7884817 Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system Michael A. Toelle 2011-02-08 $17,009,000
7800606 Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system Michael A. Toelle 2010-09-21 $12,612,000
7800607 Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system Michael A. Toelle 2010-09-21 $12,612,000
7782316 Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system Michael A. Toelle 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7719544 Systems and methods for providing controllable texture sampling Michael A. Toelle 2010-05-18 $13,421,000
7671862 Systems and methods for providing an enhanced graphics pipeline Amar Patel, David R. Blythe, Jeff M. J. Noyle, Michael A. Toelle, Stephen H. Wright 2010-03-02 $22,070,000
7659902 API communications for vertex and pixel shaders Michael A. Toelle 2010-02-09 $23,520,000
7570267 Systems and methods for providing an enhanced graphics pipeline Amar Patel, David R. Blythe, Jeff M. J. Noyle, Michael A. Toelle, Stephen H. Wright 2009-08-04 $28,843,000
7564460 Systems and methods for providing intermediate targets in a graphics system Michele B. Boland, Anantha Rao Kancherla 2009-07-21 $26,581,000