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Christopher D. S. Donham — 26 Patents

NVIDIA: 25 patents #223 of 7,811Top 3%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
San Mateo, CA: #216 of 3,727 inventorsTop 6%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Christopher D. S. Donham has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in November 2015. Christopher D. S. Donham ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Christopher D. S. Donham in San Mateo, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2010.peak 72003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 7 patents2011: 5 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9183607 Scoreboard cache coherence in a graphics pipeline Justin Michael Mahan, Edward A. Hutchins, Kevin P Acken, Michael J. M. Toksvig 2015-11-10 $11,691,000
8860722 Early Z scoreboard tracking system and method Brian Keith Cabral, Edward A. Hutchins 2014-10-14 $3,953,000
8773447 Tag logic scoreboarding in a graphics pipeline 2014-07-08 $3,871,000
8564598 Parallelogram unified primitive description for rasterization Edward A. Hutchins, William T. Warner 2013-10-22 $10,004,000
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 $10,999,000
8325203 Optimal caching for virtual coverage antialiasing 2012-12-04 $7,103,000
8098257 Filtering unit for floating-point texture data Walter E. Donovan, Anders M. Kugler 2012-01-17 $16,952,000
8040357 Quotient remainder coverage system and method Edward A. Hutchins 2011-10-18 $18,606,000
8004522 Using coverage information in computer graphics Michael J. M. Toksvig, Brian Keith Cabral, Edward A. Hutchins, Gary C. King 2011-08-23 $7,741,000
7996622 Detecting unused cache lines Michael J. M. Toksvig 2011-08-09 $11,894,000
7911470 Fairly arbitrating between clients John S. Montrym 2011-03-22 $24,505,000
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 $20,365,000
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 $9,223,000
7821518 Fairly arbitrating between clients John S. Montrym 2010-10-26 $21,631,000
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 $19,537,000
7808512 Bounding region accumulation for graphics rendering Edward A. Hutchins, Gary C. King, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Mark J. Kilgard 2010-10-05 $7,741,000
7705846 Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline Alexander L. Minkin 2010-04-27 $22,977,000
7697009 Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline Alexander L. Minkin 2010-04-13 $16,538,000
7692654 Nondeterministic pixel location and identification in a raster unit of a graphics pipeline 2010-04-06 $15,458,000
7589741 Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline Alexander L. Minkin 2009-09-15 $53,485,000
7565490 Out of order graphics L2 cache John S. Montrym, Patrick R. Marchand 2009-07-21 $31,334,000
7417637 Fairly arbitrating between clients John S. Montrym 2008-08-26 $25,485,000
7355603 Filtering unit for floating-point texture data Walter E. Donovan, Anders M. Kugler 2008-04-08 $42,643,000
7245302 Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline Alexander L. Minkin 2007-07-17 $162,800,000
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 $26,680,000