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David B. Kirk — 51 Patents

NVIDIA: 43 patents #96 of 7,811Top 2%
Caltech: 3 patents #909 of 4,321Top 25%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
HP: 2 patents #7,666 of 7,018Top 110%
Telluride, CO: #1 of 47 inventorsTop 3%
Colorado: #404 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #51,932 of 4,157,543Top 2%
51 Patents All Time
David B. Kirk has been granted 51 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in August 2018. David B. Kirk ranks #51,932 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list David B. Kirk in Telluride, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 51 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10043457 Variable brightness LCD backlight 2018-08-07 $279,965,000
8872754 System, method, and computer program product for controlling stereo glasses shutters Gerrit A. Slavenburg, Thomas F. Fox, David Cook 2014-10-28 $4,694,000
8692844 Method and system for efficient antialiased rendering Steven E. Molnar, John S. Montrym, Douglas A. Voorhies 2014-04-08 $7,014,000
8264492 System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set John Erik Lindholm, Henry Packard Moreton, Simon Moy 2012-09-11 $7,610,000
8259122 System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set John Erik Lindholm, Henry Packard Moreton, Simon Moy 2012-09-04 $11,815,000
8237705 Hierarchical processor array John Erik Lindholm, John S. Montrym, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Simon Moy, Sean J. Treichler +2 more 2012-08-07 $23,996,000
8077174 Hierarchical processor array John Erik Lindholm, John S. Montrym, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Simon Moy, Sean J. Treichler +2 more 2011-12-13 $22,972,000
7928997 Digital image compositing using a programmable graphics processor Rui M. Bastos, Daniel Elliott Wexler, Larry Gritz, Jonathan Rice, Harold Robert Feldman Zatz +1 more 2011-04-19 $39,090,000
7755636 System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set John Erik Lindholm, Henry Packard Moreton, Simon Moy 2010-07-13 $5,771,000
7697008 System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set John Erik Lindholm, Henry Packard Moreton, Simon Moy 2010-04-13 $16,538,000
7683905 Methods of processing graphics data including reading and writing buffers Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Rui M. Bastos, John Erik Lindholm, Steven E. Molnar 2010-03-23 $13,891,000
7502010 Variable brightness LCD backlight 2009-03-10 $14,477,000
7477266 Digital image compositing using a programmable graphics processor Rui M. Bastos, Daniel Elliott Wexler, Larry Gritz, Jonathan Rice, Harold Robert Feldman Zatz +1 more 2009-01-13 $7,119,000
7330916 Graphic controller to manage a memory and effective size of FIFO buffer as viewed by CPU can be as large as the memory 2008-02-12 $26,102,000
7274369 Digital image compositing using a programmable graphics processor Rui M. Bastos, Daniel Elliott Wexler, Larry Gritz, Jonathan Rice, Harold Robert Feldman Zatz +1 more 2007-09-25 $30,336,000
7209140 System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable vertex processing model with instruction set John Erik Lindholm, Henry Packard Moreton, Simon Moy 2007-04-24 $126,324,000
7142215 Method and apparatus for processing stencil data using a programmable graphics processor Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Rui M. Bastos 2006-11-28 $22,185,000
7139003 Methods of processing graphics data including reading and writing buffers Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Rui M. Bastos, John Erik Lindholm, Steven E. Moinar 2006-11-21 $131,544,000
7136068 Texture cache for a computer graphics accelerator Curtis Priem, Gopal Solanki 2006-11-14 $25,876,000
7095414 Blending system and method in an integrated computer graphics pipeline John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Paolo E. Sabella 2006-08-22 $44,252,000
7064763 Single semiconductor graphics platform John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more 2006-06-20 $26,997,000
7053904 Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Rui M. Bastos, John Erik Lindholm, Steven E. Molnar, John S. Montrym +1 more 2006-05-30 $12,990,000
7050055 Single semiconductor graphics platform with blending and fog capabilities John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more 2006-05-23 $15,855,000
7038692 Method and apparatus for providing a vertex cache Curtis Priem 2006-05-02 $17,143,000
7034829 Masking system and method for a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more 2006-04-25 $81,511,000