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Michael L. Lightstone — 13 Patents

NVIDIA: 10 patents #743 of 7,811Top 10%
AMD: 3 patents #3,165 of 9,280Top 35%
Fremont, CA: #1,365 of 9,298 inventorsTop 15%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Michael L. Lightstone has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in January 2012. Michael L. Lightstone ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Michael L. Lightstone in Fremont, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8094239 3:2 pulldown detection Jonathan White 2012-01-10 $6,241,000
8068181 3:2 pulldown detection Jonathan White 2011-11-29 $20,513,000
8035750 3:2 pulldown detection Jonathan White 2011-10-11 $14,320,000
8004613 3:2 pulldown detection Jonathan White 2011-08-23 $7,741,000
7995150 3:2 pulldown detection Jonathan White 2011-08-09 $11,894,000
7894002 3:2 pulldown detection Jonathan White 2011-02-22 $34,927,000
7800699 3:2 Pulldown detection Jonathan White 2010-09-21 $10,723,000
7584475 Managing a video encoder to facilitate loading and executing another program Stefan Eckart, Hassane S. Azar 2009-09-01 $21,289,000
7535959 Apparatus, system, and method for video encoder rate control Stefan Eckart 2009-05-19 $20,584,000
7277581 Method for video format detection Stefan Eckart 2007-10-02 $87,401,000
6714720 Method and apparatus for storing multi-media data Stefan Eckart, Richard Webb, Haitao Guo, Xiaohua Yang, Fabio Onofrio Ingrao 2004-03-30 $15,292,000
6693959 Method and apparatus for indexing and locating key frames in streaming and variable-frame-length data Stefan Eckart, Fabio Onofrio Ingrao, Richard Webb, Xiaohua Yang 2004-02-17 $16,943,000
6400895 Method for optimizing MPEG-2 video playback consistency Richard Webb 2002-06-04 $11,558,000