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Curtis Priem — 89 Patents

NVIDIA: 52 patents #65 of 7,811Top 1%
Oracle: 37 patents #159 of 14,854Top 2%
Samsung: 6 patents #20,081 of 75,807Top 30%
Fremont, CA: #87 of 9,298 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,823 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #18,310 of 4,157,543Top 1%
89 Patents All Time
Curtis Priem has been granted 89 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in June 2013. Curtis Priem ranks #18,310 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.44%). Patent records list Curtis Priem in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 1998.peak 131990: 6 patents19901991: 3 patents1992: 11 patents19921993: 3 patents1994: 4 patents19941996: 6 patents1997: 11 patents19971998: 13 patents1999: 5 patents19992000: 7 patents2001: 8 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2006: 3 patents20062009: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 89 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8463951 Unified driver architecture device identifier strategy 2013-06-11 $6,924,000
8180943 Method and apparatus for latency based thread scheduling 2012-05-15 $15,513,000
7999801 System and method of detecting rotated displays 2011-08-16 $13,575,000
7598948 System and method of detecting rotated displays 2009-10-06 $15,771,000
7136068 Texture cache for a computer graphics accelerator Gopal Solanki, David B. Kirk 2006-11-14 $25,876,000
7109996 Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory 2006-09-19 $51,879,000
7038692 Method and apparatus for providing a vertex cache David B. Kirk 2006-05-02 $17,143,000
6725457 Semaphore enhancement to improve system performance Rick M. Iwamoto 2004-04-20 $17,802,000
6691180 Apparatus for accelerating the rendering of images Rick M. Iwamoto, Stephen Johnson 2004-02-10 $28,678,000
6628290 Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures David B. Kirk, Gopal Solanki, Walter E. Donovan, Joe L. Yeun 2003-09-30 $22,698,000
6446186 Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for mapping physical memory in a virtual address system Don Bittel 2002-09-03 $29,305,000
6421059 Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory 2002-07-16 $54,313,000
6333744 Graphics pipeline including combiner stages David B. Kirk, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Shaun Ho, Walter E. Donovan 2001-12-25
6292854 Method and apparatus for providing high quality audio in a computer system 2001-09-18 $102,241,000
6282587 Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of images Rick M. Iwamoto, Stephen Johnson 2001-08-28 $138,273,000
6275243 Method and apparatus for accelerating the transfer of graphical images Raymond Lim 2001-08-14 $142,165,000
6239808 Method and apparatus for determining texture values of graphical images David B. Kirk 2001-05-29 $149,282,000
6226012 Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of graphical images David B. Kirk 2001-05-01 $146,271,000
6191794 Method and apparatus for scaling texture maps for graphical images David S. Schmenk, David Kirk 2001-02-20 $117,777,000
6181352 Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures David B. Kirk, Gopal Solanki, Walter E. Donovan, Joe L. Yeun 2001-01-30 $102,122,000
6141741 Computer system with a shared address bus and pipelined write operations Satyanarayana Nishtala, Michael G. Lavelle, Thomas P. Webber, Daniel E. Lenoski, Peter A. Mehring +2 more 2000-10-31 $145,731,000
6092124 Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of images Rick M. Iwamoto, Stephen Johnson 2000-07-18 $121,224,000
6081854 System for providing fast transfers to input/output device by assuring commands from only one application program reside in FIFO David S. H. Rosenthal 2000-06-27 $120,128,000
6075544 Method and apparatus for accelerating rendering by coalescing data accesses Chris Malachowsky, David Kirk 2000-06-13 $101,826,000
6065071 Method and apparatus for trapping unimplemented operations in input/output devices David S. H. Rosenthal 2000-05-16 $75,644,000