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Joel J. McCormack — 27 Patents

NVIDIA: 11 patents #657 of 7,811Top 9%
DEDigital Equipment: 8 patents #114 of 2,100Top 6%
CCCompaq Computer: 4 patents #276 of 1,604Top 20%
HP: 4 patents #4,645 of 16,619Top 30%
Boulder, CO: #202 of 5,018 inventorsTop 5%
Colorado: #1,267 of 40,980 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Joel J. McCormack has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in August 2017. Joel J. McCormack ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Joel J. McCormack in Boulder, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 5 patents20002001: 3 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 3 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9720858 Technique for performing memory access operations via texture hardware Brian Fahs, Eric T. Anderson, Nick Barrow-Williams, Shirish Gadre, Bryon S. Nordquist +2 more 2017-08-01 $168,946,000
9697006 Technique for performing memory access operations via texture hardware Brian Fahs, Eric T. Anderson, Nick Barrow-Williams, Shirish Gadre, Bryon S. Nordquist +2 more 2017-07-04
9595075 Load/store operations in texture hardware Steven James Heinrich, Eric T. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Bolz, Jonathan Dunaisky, Ramesh Jandhyala +3 more 2017-03-14 $91,031,000
9448935 Surface resource view hash for coherent cache operations in texture processing hardware Jeff Bolz, Patrick R. Brown, Steven James Heinrich, Dale L. Kirkland 2016-09-20 $28,747,000
9348762 Technique for accessing content-addressable memory Brian Fahs, Eric T. Anderson, Nick Barrow-Williams, Shirish Gadre, Bryon S. Nordquist +2 more 2016-05-24 $64,918,000
8930636 Relaxed coherency between different caches Rajesh Kota, Olivier Giroux, Emmett M. Kilgariff 2015-01-06 $6,463,000
8456481 Block linear memory ordering of texture data techniques Walter E. Donovan, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Karim M. Abdalla 2013-06-04 $7,022,000
8436868 Block linear memory ordering of texture data Walter E. Donovan, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Karim M. Abdalla 2013-05-07 $5,473,000
7916149 Block linear memory ordering of texture data Walter E. Donovan, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Karim M. Abdalla 2011-03-29 $12,889,000
7884831 Reconfigurable high-performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering Alexander L. Minkin, Paul S. Heckbert, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Luke Y. Chang, Karim M. Abdalla +4 more 2011-02-08 $12,175,000
7649538 Reconfigurable high performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering Alexander L. Minkin, Paul S. Heckbert, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Luke Y. Chang, Karim M. Abdalla +4 more 2010-01-19 $14,923,000
7336283 Efficient hardware A-buffer using three-dimensional allocation of fragment memory Norman Paul Jouppi, Larry Seiler 2008-02-26 $38,606,000
7081903 Efficient movement of fragment stamp Robert McNamara, Laura Edwards Mendyke, Todd Aldridge Dutton 2006-07-25 $31,567,000
6714196 Method and apparatus for tiled polygon traversal Robert McNamara, Laura Edwards Mendyke, Todd Aldridge Dutton 2004-03-30 $16,313,000
6633297 System and method for producing an antialiased image using a merge buffer Keith Farkas, Norman Paul Jouppi, Larry Seiler, Robert McNamara 2003-10-14 $16,059,000
6329977 Pre-filtered antialiased lines using distance functions Robert McNamara, Norman Paul Jouppi, James T. Claffey, James M. Knittel, Larry Seiler 2001-12-11 $39,784,000
6292193 Techniques for anisotropic texture mapping using multiple space-invariant filtering operations per pixel Ronald N. Perry, Norman Paul Jouppi, Keith Farkas 2001-09-18 $23,845,000
6204859 Method and apparatus for compositing colors of images with memory constraints for storing pixel data Norman Paul Jouppi, Chun-Fa Chang 2001-03-20
6128000 Full-scene antialiasing using improved supersampling techniques Norman Paul Jouppi 2000-10-03 $45,402,000
6112267 Hierarchical ring buffers for buffering data between processor and I/O device permitting data writes by processor and data reads by I/O device simultaneously directed at different buffers at different levels Christopher C. Gianos, James T. Claffey, Danny Paul Eggleston, Tracey L. Gustafson 2000-08-29
6109777 Division with limited carry-propagation in quotient accumulation Norman Paul Jouppi, John H. Zurawski 2000-08-29 $98,531,000
6112318 Performance counters controlled by programmable logic Norman Paul Jouppi, Larry Seiler, Mark O. Yeager 2000-08-29
6085292 Apparatus and method for providing non-blocking pipelined cache Kenneth W. Correll, Barton W. Berkowitz, Christopher C. Gianos 2000-07-04
5870109 Graphic system with read/write overlap detector Christopher C. Gianos, Andrew V. Hoar, Larry Seiler, Norman Paul Jouppi, James T. Claffey 1999-02-09
5781201 Method for providing improved graphics performance through atypical pixel storage in video memory Robert McNamara, Larry Seiler, Christopher C. Gianos 1998-07-14