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Edward C. Greene — 14 Patents

NVIDIA: 10 patents #743 of 7,811Top 10%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
Saugerties, NY: #9 of 116 inventorsTop 8%
New York: #10,566 of 115,490 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Edward C. Greene has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in September 2012. Edward C. Greene ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Edward C. Greene in Saugerties, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2003.peak 21984: 1 patents19841993: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8269768 System, method and computer program product for updating a far clipping plane in association with a hierarchical depth buffer Patrick Hanrahan 2012-09-18 $10,312,000
7969436 System, method and computer program product for transforming a polynomial equation from a coordinate frame of one tile to a coordinate frame of another tile at a finer level of a hierachy Patrick Hanrahan 2011-06-28 $12,655,000
7952579 System, method and computer program product for geometrically transforming geometric objects Patrick Hanrahan 2011-05-31 $127,607,000
7375727 System, method and computer program product for geometrically transforming geometric objects Patrick Hanrahan 2008-05-20 $79,117,000
7023437 System and method for accelerating graphics processing using a post-geometry data stream during multiple-pass rendering Douglas A. Voorhies, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Svetoslav D. Tzvetkov 2006-04-04 $84,569,000
6894689 Occlusion culling method and apparatus for graphics systems Douglas A. Voorhies, Paolo E. Sabella, John M. Danskin, James M. Van Dyke 2005-05-17 $18,839,000
6768487 Method and apparatus for occlusion culling in graphics systems Patrick Hanrahan 2004-07-27 $14,305,000
6646639 Modified method and apparatus for improved occlusion culling in graphics systems Douglas A. Voorhies, Paolo E. Sabella, John M. Danskin, James M. Van Dyke 2003-11-11 $27,561,000
6636215 Hardware-assisted z-pyramid creation for host-based occlusion culling — 2003-10-21 $15,891,000
6480205 Method and apparatus for occlusion culling in graphics systems Patrick Hanrahan 2002-11-12 $36,805,000
5600763 Error-bounded antialiased rendering of complex scenes Michael Kass 1997-02-04 $2,396,000
5579455 Rendering of 3D scenes on a display using hierarchical z-buffer visibility Michael Kass, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller 1996-11-26 $7,271,000
5261933 Vent gas deodorizing system — 1993-11-16
4442777 Adaptor cartridge — 1984-04-17

Frequent Collaborators

Patrick Hanrahan6 shared
Douglas A. Voorhies3 shared
John M. Danskin2 shared
Michael Kass2 shared
James M. Van Dyke2 shared
Paolo E. Sabella2 shared

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