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Duncan A. Riach — 21 Patents

NVIDIA: 20 patents #308 of 7,811Top 4%
Mountain View, CA: #1,001 of 11,022 inventorsTop 10%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Duncan A. Riach has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in December 2025. Duncan A. Riach ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Duncan A. Riach in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2012.peak 52004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents20052006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents20092011: 4 patents20112012: 5 patents20122013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12493784 Tie-breaker for inference reproducibility Alvin Ihsani 2025-12-09
9489712 Multiple simultaneous unique outputs from a single display pipeline Michael A. Ogrinc, Brijesh Tripathi, Wayne Douglas Young 2016-11-08 $28,734,000
9292069 System and method for controlling mode switches in hardware Michael A. Ogrinc, Leslie E. Neft 2016-03-22 $13,057,000
8963940 Isochronous hub contracts Robert A. Alfieri, Brijesh Tripathi, Patrick R. Marchand 2015-02-24 $8,823,000
8447035 Contract based memory management for isochronous streams Brijesh Tripathi 2013-05-21 $17,170,000
8234488 System and method for controlling mode switches in hardware Michael A. Ogrinc, Leslie E. Neft 2012-07-31 $9,777,000
8154556 Multiple simultaneous unique outputs from a single display pipeline Michael A. Ogrinc, Brijesh Tripathi, Wayne Douglas Young 2012-04-10 $18,398,000
8155316 Contract based memory management for isochronous streams Brijesh Tripathi 2012-04-10 $18,398,000
8134567 Active raster composition and error checking in hardware Leslie E. Neft, Michael A. Ogrinc, Tyvis Cheung 2012-03-13 $7,465,000
8125491 Multiple simultaneous unique outputs from a single display pipeline Michael A. Ogrinc, Brijesh Tripathi, Wayne Douglas Young 2012-02-28 $10,154,000
8049761 Bus protocol for transferring pixel data between chips Michael A. Ogrinc, Tyvis Cheung 2011-11-01 $24,137,000
7999815 Active raster composition and error checking in hardware Leslie E. Neft, Michael A. Ogrinc, Tyvis Cheung 2011-08-16
7941645 Isochronous pipelined processor with deterministic control Leslie E. Neft, Michael A. Ogrinc, Wayne Douglas Young 2011-05-10 $67,755,000
7882380 Work based clock management for display sub-system Michael A. Ogrinc, Leslie E. Neft 2011-02-01 $21,156,000
7586492 Real-time display post-processing using programmable hardware John M. Danskin, Jonah M. Alben, Michael A. Ogrinc, Anthony Michael Tamasi 2009-09-08 $16,429,000
7573528 Method and apparatus for displaying progressive material on an interlaced device 2009-08-11 $20,232,000
7426594 Apparatus, system, and method for arbitrating between memory requests Brijesh Tripathi 2008-09-16 $17,111,000
7015970 Method and apparatus for displaying progressive material on an interlaced device 2006-03-21 $17,029,000
6937290 Method and apparatus using the Bresenham algorithm to synthesize a composite SYNC signal Michael B. Nagy 2005-08-30 $25,172,000
6897874 Method and apparatus for providing overlay images 2005-05-24 $61,775,000
6788312 Method for improving quality in graphics pipelines through a frame's top and bottom field processing with conditional thresholding and weighting techniques Hassane S. Azar, Douglas Sim Dietrich, Jr., Henry Packard Moreton, Douglas H. Rogers 2004-09-07 $29,541,000