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Johnny S. Rhoades — 12 Patents

NVIDIA: 12 patents #582 of 7,811Top 8%
Durham, NC: #431 of 4,103 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #4,293 of 45,564 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Johnny S. Rhoades has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in January 2017. Johnny S. Rhoades ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Johnny S. Rhoades in Durham, NC, US.

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Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9536341 Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers Emmett M. Kilgariff, Michael C. Shebanow, Ziyad S. Hakura, Dale L. Kirkland, James Daniel Kelly 2017-01-03 $141,840,000
9436969 Time slice processing of tessellation and geometry shaders Ziyad S. Hakura, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Dale L. Kirkland, Cynthia Ann Edgeworth Allison, Karim M. Abdalla 2016-09-06 $15,763,000
8947444 Distributed vertex attribute fetch Ziyad S. Hakura, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Michael C. Shebanow, James C. Bowman, Philip Browning Johnson +1 more 2015-02-03 $4,737,000
8917271 Redistribution of generated geometric primitives Ziyad S. Hakura, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Dale L. Kirkland, Cynthia Ann Edgeworth Allison, Karl M. Wurstner +1 more 2014-12-23 $18,253,000
8760460 Hardware-managed virtual buffers using a shared memory for load distribution Emmett M. Kilgariff, Steven E. Molnar, Sean J. Treichler, Gernot Schaufler, Dale L. Kirkland +3 more 2014-06-24 $4,107,000
8704836 Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers Steven E. Molnar, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Michael C. Shebanow, Ziyad S. Hakura, Dale L. Kirkland +1 more 2014-04-22 $4,341,000
8587581 Order-preserving distributed rasterizer Steven E. Molnar, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Timothy John Purcell, Sean J. Treichler, Ziyad S. Hakura +2 more 2013-11-19 $7,672,000
7973802 Optional color space conversion John Douglas Tynefield, Jr., Andrew Tao, Rui M. Bastos 2011-07-05 $33,789,000
7852340 Scalable shader architecture Rui M. Bastos, Karim M. Abdalla, Christian Rouet, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Roger L. Allen +6 more 2010-12-14 $10,181,000
7593021 Optional color space conversion John Douglas Tynefield, Jr., Andrew Tao, Rui M. Bastos 2009-09-22 $15,011,000
7528843 Dynamic texture fetch cancellation Mark J. Kilgard, Rui M. Bastos, Cass W. Everitt, Wei-Chao Chen 2009-05-05 $30,081,000
7385607 Scalable shader architecture Rui M. Bastos, Karim M. Abdalla, Christian Rouet, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Roger L. Allen +6 more 2008-06-10 $28,739,000