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Dennis Ma — 24 Patents

NVIDIA: 24 patents #234 of 7,811Top 3%
Austin, TX: #1,344 of 18,064 inventorsTop 8%
Texas: #5,446 of 125,132 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Dennis Ma has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2019. Dennis Ma ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Dennis Ma in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10333565 Safe communication mode for a high speed link Marvin Denman, Eric Tyson, Stephen D. Glaser 2019-06-25 $261,770,000
10200154 System and method for early packet header verification Stephen D. Glaser, Eric Tyson, Mark Hummel, Michael J. Osborn, Jonathan Owen +2 more 2019-02-05 $235,043,000
10003362 Safe communication mode for a high speed link Marvin Denman, Eric Tyson, Stephen D. Glaser 2018-06-19 $289,327,000
9996490 Technique for scaling the bandwidth of a processing element to match the bandwidth of an interconnect Marvin Denman, Stephen D. Glaser 2018-06-12 $408,611,000
9954984 System and method for enabling replay using a packetized link protocol Michael J. Osborn, Eric Tyson, Stephen D. Glaser, Marvin Denman, Jonathan Owen +1 more 2018-04-24 $155,137,000
9727521 Efficient CPU mailbox read access to GPU memory Karan Gupta, Lei Tian, Franck R. Diard, Praveen Jain, Wei-Je Huang +1 more 2017-08-08 $198,423,000
9720768 System and method for early packet header verification Stephen D. Glaser, Eric Tyson, Mark Hummel, Michael J. Osborn, Jonathan Owen +2 more 2017-08-01 $168,946,000
9690736 Managing state transitions of a data connector using a finite state machine Samuel Vincent 2017-06-27 $509,936,000
9626320 Technique for scaling the bandwidth of a processing element to match the bandwidth of an interconnect Marvin Denman, Stephen D. Glaser 2017-04-18 $126,538,000
9424227 Providing byte enables for peer-to-peer data transfer within a computing environment Samuel H. Duncan, Wei-Je Huang, Gary Ward 2016-08-23 $24,893,000
9390042 System and method for sending arbitrary packet types across a data connector Wei-Je Huang, Hitendra Dutt 2016-07-12 $20,637,000
9164766 System and method for hardware assisted stack Aron L. Wong, Jonah M. Alben, Mark Krueger, Jeffrey J. Irwin 2015-10-20 $10,837,000
8897352 Multipass approach for performing channel equalization training Hungse Cha, Robert Huang, Vishal Mehta, Feroze Karim, Michael Hopgood +1 more 2014-11-25 $14,710,000
8726283 Deadlock avoidance skid buffer Oren Rubinstein, Richard B. Kujoth 2014-05-13 $3,040,000
8547993 Asynchronous interface for communicating between clock domains Lincoln G. Garlick, Richard A. Silkebakken, Prakash G. Apte, Paolo E. Sabella, Samuel H. Duncan +1 more 2013-10-01 $10,999,000
8532098 System and method for virtual channel communication David G. Reed, Oren Rubinstein, Brad W. Simeral, Devang Sachdev, Daphne Das +3 more 2013-09-10 $15,985,000
8392667 Deadlock avoidance by marking CPU traffic as special Samuel H. Duncan, David B. Glasco, Wei-Je Huang, Atul Kalambur, Patrick R. Marchand 2013-03-05 $8,122,000
8108879 Method and apparatus for context switching of multiple engines Lincoln G. Garlick, Paolo E. Sabella, David W. Nuechterlein 2012-01-31 $9,973,000
7483032 Zero frame buffer Sonny S. Yeoh, Shane J. Keil, Peter C. Tong 2009-01-27 $9,405,000
7467289 Indicating acknowledge of stable state of pipeline resource when freeze bit set and context switch inhibited Lincoln G. Garlick, Vikramjeet Singh, David W. Nuechterlein, Shail Dave, Jeffrey M. Smith +1 more 2008-12-16 $11,415,000
7205973 Gradual dimming of backlit displays Kayvon Fatahalian 2007-04-17 $23,962,000
7126608 Graphics processor and system with microcontroller for programmable sequencing of power up or power down operations Jonah M. Alben 2006-10-24 $60,432,000
6963340 Graphics processor and system with microcontroller for programmable sequencing of power up or power down operations Jonah M. Alben 2005-11-08 $15,612,000
6938176 Method and apparatus for power management of graphics processors and subsystems that allow the subsystems to respond to accesses when subsystems are idle Jonah M. Alben, Brian Kelleher 2005-08-30 $25,172,000