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Franklin C. Crow — 25 Patents

NVIDIA: 25 patents #223 of 7,811Top 3%
Portola Valley, CA: #92 of 621 inventorsTop 15%
California: #22,079 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Franklin C. Crow has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in September 2015. Franklin C. Crow ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Franklin C. Crow in Portola Valley, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 72006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 6 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 7 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9123173 Method for rasterizing non-rectangular tile groups in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline Justin S. Legakis, John S. Montrym, Douglas A. Voorhies 2015-09-01 $18,918,000
9117309 Method and system for rendering polygons with a bounding box in a graphics processor unit 2015-08-25 $8,369,000
9105113 Method and system for efficiently rendering circles Blaise A. Vignon 2015-08-11 $11,298,000
9070213 Tile based precision rasterization in a graphics pipeline Blaise A. Vignon 2015-06-30 $4,901,000
9064333 Interrupt handling techniques in the rasterizer of a GPU Jeffrey R. Sewall 2015-06-23 $10,787,000
8941653 Order-preserving distributed rasterizer Steven E. Molnar, Emmett M. Kilgariff, John S. Rhoades, Timothy John Purcell, Sean J. Treichler +2 more 2015-01-27 $3,715,000
8928676 Method for parallel fine rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline Walter R. Steiner, Craig M. Wittenbrink, Roger L. Allen, Douglas A. Voorhies 2015-01-06 $6,463,000
8780123 Interrupt handling techniques in the rasterizer of a GPU Jeffrey R. Sewall 2014-07-15 $7,193,000
8698811 Nested boustrophedonic patterns for rasterization Justin S. Legakis, Jeffrey R. Sewall 2014-04-15 $1,804,000
8587581 Order-preserving distributed rasterizer Steven E. Molnar, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Johnny S. Rhoades, Timothy John Purcell, Sean J. Treichler +2 more 2013-11-19 $7,672,000
8508544 Small primitive detection to optimize compression and decompression in a graphics processor Steven E. Molnar 2013-08-13 $8,561,000
8482567 Line rasterization techniques Henry Packard Moreton 2013-07-09 $11,606,000
8477134 Conservative triage of polygon status using low precision edge evaluation and high precision edge evaluation Blaise A. Vignon 2013-07-02 $11,510,000
8427487 Multiple tile output using interface compression in a raster stage 2013-04-23 $3,581,000
8390645 Method and system for rendering connecting antialiased line segments John S. Montrym, David Kirk McAllister, Craig M. Wittenbrink 2013-03-05 $8,122,000
8237738 Smooth rasterization of polygonal graphics primitives 2012-08-07 $23,996,000
8085264 Tile output using multiple queue output buffering in a raster stage Jeffrey R. Sewall 2011-12-27 $11,786,000
8063903 Edge evaluation techniques for graphics hardware Blaise A. Vignon 2011-11-22 $12,461,000
7843468 Accellerated start tile search Jeffrey R. Sewall 2010-11-30 $12,622,000
7804499 Variable performance rasterization with constant effort Steven E. Molnar, Blaise A. Vignon 2010-09-28 $15,311,000
7791617 Method and system for rendering polygons having abutting edges John S. Montrym 2010-09-07 $5,417,000
7554546 Stippled lines using direct distance evaluation Douglas A. Voorhies, John M. Danskin 2009-06-30 $47,737,000
7483029 GPU having raster components configured for using nested boustrophedonic patterns to traverse screen areas Jeffrey R. Sewall 2009-01-27 $9,405,000
7221368 Stippled lines using direct distance evaluation Douglas A. Voorhies, John M. Danskin 2007-05-22 $24,444,000
7081902 Apparatus, system, and method for gamma correction of smoothed primitives John S. Montrym, Matthew J. Craighead 2006-07-25 $20,912,000