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Aaron Eliot Lefohn — 27 Patents

NVIDIA: 20 patents #308 of 7,811Top 4%
Intel: 6 patents #6,200 of 30,777Top 25%
University of California: 1 patents #8,022 of 18,278Top 45%
Disney: 1 patents #4,015 of 6,686Top 65%
Kirkland, WA: #188 of 3,517 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #3,049 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Aaron Eliot Lefohn has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in February 2025. Aaron Eliot Lefohn ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Aaron Eliot Lefohn in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2017.peak 52009: 1 patents20092014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 5 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12217386 Image generation using one or more neural networks Brennan Shacklett, Marco Salvi 2025-02-04
11925860 Projective hash maps Marco Salvi, Jacopo Pantaleoni, Christopher Ryan Wyman, Pascal Gautron 2024-03-12 $2,816,888,000
11861811 Neural network system with temporal feedback for denoising of rendered sequences Carl J. Munkberg, Jon N. Hasselgren, Anjul Patney, Marco Salvi, Donald Lee Brittain 2024-01-02 $1,143,290,000
11836597 Detecting visual artifacts in image sequences using a neural network model Anjul Patney 2023-12-05 $1,234,193,000
11557022 Neural network system with temporal feedback for denoising of rendered sequences Carl J. Munkberg, Jon N. Hasselgren, Anjul Patney, Marco Salvi, Donald Lee Brittain 2023-01-17 $4,473,151,000
11475542 Neural network system with temporal feedback for adaptive sampling and denoising of rendered sequences Carl J. Munkberg, Jon N. Hasselgren, Anjul Patney, Marco Salvi, Donald Lee Brittain 2022-10-18 $483,516,000
11315310 Reservoir-based spatiotemporal importance resampling utilizing a global illumination data structure Christopher Ryan Wyman, Morgan McGuire, Peter Schuyler Shirley 2022-04-26 $1,621,650,000
11113800 Filtering image data using a neural network Anton S. Kaplanyan, Chakravarty Reddy Alla Chaitanya, Timo Oskari Aila, Marco Salvi 2021-09-07 $926,461,000
10922876 Saccadic redirection for virtual reality locomotion Qi Sun, Anjul Patney, Omer Shapira, Morgan McGuire, David Patrick Luebke 2021-02-16 $1,146,368,000
10600167 Performing spatiotemporal filtering Christoph Hermann Schied, Marco Salvi, Anton S. Kaplanyan, John Burgess, Anjul Patney +1 more 2020-03-24 $106,300,000
10573061 Saccadic redirection for virtual reality locomotion Qi Sun, Anjul Patney, Omer Shapira, Morgan McGuire, David Patrick Luebke 2020-02-25 $301,013,000
10573071 Path planning for virtual reality locomotion Qi Sun, Anjul Patney, Omer Shapira, Morgan McGuire, David Patrick Luebke 2020-02-25 $301,013,000
10565747 Differentiable rendering pipeline for inverse graphics Tzu-Mao Li, Marco Salvi, Jaakko T. Lehtinen 2020-02-18 $346,827,000
10438400 Perceptually-based foveated rendering using a contrast-enhancing filter Anjul Patney, Marco Salvi, Joohwan Kim, Anton S. Kaplanyan, Christopher Ryan Wyman +2 more 2019-10-08
10362289 Method for data reuse and applications to spatio-temporal supersampling and de-noising Marco Salvi, Anjul Patney 2019-07-23 $362,683,000
10116916 Method for data reuse and applications to spatio-temporal supersampling and de-noising Marco Salvi, Anjul Patney 2018-10-30 $133,651,000
10055883 Frustum tests for sub-pixel shadows Christopher Ryan Wyman, Anjul Patney 2018-08-21 $298,280,000
9779696 Serialized access to graphics resources Tomasz Janczak, Marco Salvi, Larry Seiler 2017-10-03 $11,313,000
9754407 System, method, and computer program product for shading using a dynamic object-space grid Anjul Patney, Eric B. Enderton, Eric B. Lum, Marco Salvi, Christopher Ryan Wyman +6 more 2017-09-05 $300,220,000
9747718 System, method, and computer program product for performing object-space shading Anjul Patney, Eric B. Enderton, Eric B. Lum, Marco Salvi, Christopher Ryan Wyman +6 more 2017-08-29 $200,361,000
9569886 Variable shading Tomas G. Akenine-Moller, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Marco Salvi, Robert M. Toth 2017-02-14 $9,787,000
9547931 System, method, and computer program product for pre-filtered anti-aliasing with deferred shading Cyril Crassin, Morgan McGuire, David Patrick Luebke 2017-01-17 $107,305,000
9275495 Rendering transparent primitives Marco Salvi, Jefferson D. Montgomery 2016-03-01 $12,287,000
9111395 Automatic placement of shadow map partitions Andrew T. Lauritzen, Marco Salvi 2015-08-18 $11,320,000
8823736 Graphics tiling architecture with bounding volume hierarchies Rasmus Barringer, Carl Johan Gribel, Tomas G. Akenine-Moller 2014-09-02 $17,093,000