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Patrick R. Brown — 53 Patents

NVIDIA: 45 patents #90 of 7,811Top 2%
IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
MIT: 2 patents #2,550 of 9,367Top 30%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Wake Forest, NC: #9 of 596 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #512 of 45,564 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
Patrick R. Brown has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in June 2022. Patrick R. Brown ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Patrick R. Brown in Wake Forest, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11372548 Techniques for accessing and utilizing compressed data and its state information Ram Rangan, Wishwesh Anil Gandhi, Steven James Heinrich, Mathias Heyer, Emmett M. Kilgariff +2 more 2022-06-28 $576,540,000
10680194 Transparent luminescent displays enabled by electric-field-induced quenching of photoluminescent pixels Geoffrey J. Supran, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Moungi G. Bawendi, Vladimir Bulovic 2020-06-09
10453168 Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations Ziyad S. Hakura, Eric B. Lum, Dale L. Kirkland, Jack Choquette, Yury Uralsky +1 more 2019-10-22
10169072 Hardware for parallel command list generation Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jesse David Hall, Henry Packard Moreton 2019-01-01
10134169 Image loads, stores and atomic operations Jeffrey A. Bolz 2018-11-20 $423,458,000
10055806 Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations Ziyad S. Hakura, Eric B. Lum, Dale L. Kirkland, Jack Choquette, Yury Uralsky +1 more 2018-08-21 $298,280,000
10032245 Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations Ziyad S. Hakura, Eric B. Lum, Dale L. Kirkland, Jack Choquette, Yury Uralsky +1 more 2018-07-24 $111,360,000
10019776 Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations Ziyad S. Hakura, Eric B. Lum, Dale L. Kirkland, Jack Choquette, Yury Uralsky +1 more 2018-07-10 $223,692,000
9754561 Managing memory regions to support sparse mappings Jonathan Dunaisky, Henry Packard Moreton, Jeffrey A. Bolz, Yury Uralsky, James Leroy Deming +6 more 2017-09-05 $300,220,000
9665958 System, method, and computer program product for redistributing a multi-sample processing workload between threads Jeffrey A. Bolz, Tyson J. Bergland, Alexander L. Minkin 2017-05-30 $139,175,000
9589310 Methods to facilitate primitive batching Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Thomas Roell 2017-03-07 $127,066,000
9448935 Surface resource view hash for coherent cache operations in texture processing hardware Jeff Bolz, Steven James Heinrich, Dale L. Kirkland, Joel J. McCormack 2016-09-20 $28,747,000
9436971 System, method, and computer program product for accessing multi-sample surfaces Jeffrey A. Bolz, Tyson J. Bergland, Alexander L. Minkin 2016-09-06 $15,763,000
9401004 State shadowing to support a multi-threaded driver environment Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jesse David Hall, Gregory Scott Palmer, Eric S. Werness 2016-07-26 $241,301,000
9349154 Bindless texture and image API Jeffrey A. Bolz 2016-05-24 $64,918,000
9324175 Memory coherency in graphics command streams and shaders Jeffrey A. Bolz 2016-04-26 $20,593,000
9286659 Multi-sample surface processing using sample subsets Alexander L. Minkin, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Eric B. Lum, Dale L. Kirkland +5 more 2016-03-15 $18,824,000
9275491 GPU work creation and stateless graphics in OPENGL Jeffrey A. Bolz, Jesse David Hall, Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Gregory Scott Palmer 2016-03-01 $14,300,000
9262797 Multi-sample surface processing using one sample Alexander L. Minkin, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Eric B. Lum, Dale L. Kirkland +5 more 2016-02-16 $15,843,000
9245371 Global stores and atomic operations Jeffrey A. Bolz 2016-01-26 $11,826,000
9099663 Quantum dot solar cells with band alignment engineering CHIA-HAO CHUANG, Vladimir Bulovic, Moungi G. Bawendi 2015-08-04
9024946 Tessellation shader inter-thread coordination Christopher T. Dodd, Mark J. Kilgard 2015-05-05 $21,604,000
8922555 Pixel shader output map Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jesse David Hall, Mark D. Stadler 2014-12-30 $7,757,000
8786618 Shader program headers Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Jesse David Hall, Gernot Schaufler, Mark D. Stadler 2014-07-22 $3,194,000
8704830 System and method for path rendering with multiple stencil samples per color sample Mark J. Kilgard 2014-04-22 $4,341,000