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Paul S. Heckbert — 15 Patents

NVIDIA: 14 patents #482 of 7,811Top 7%
Google: 1 patents #14,887 of 22,993Top 65%
Pittsburgh, PA: #482 of 7,570 inventorsTop 7%
Pennsylvania: #4,990 of 74,527 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Paul S. Heckbert has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in April 2015. Paul S. Heckbert ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Paul S. Heckbert in Pittsburgh, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2007.peak 32006: 1 patents20062007: 3 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents20102011: 3 patents20112012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9007389 Texture map component optimization 2015-04-14 $9,074,000
8340423 Enhancing digital image mosaics using region-statistics Stephen D. Zelinka 2012-12-25
8031204 Font filter using bilinear interpolation John W. Berendsen 2011-10-04 $17,347,000
7982745 Trilinear optimization for texture filtering Walter E. Donovan 2011-07-19 $23,388,000
7884831 Reconfigurable high-performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering Alexander L. Minkin, Joel J. McCormack, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Luke Y. Chang, Karim M. Abdalla +4 more 2011-02-08 $12,175,000
7852347 Texture map pixel pairing optimization 2010-12-14 $10,181,000
7773092 Texture map coverage optimization 2010-08-10 $7,941,000
7649538 Reconfigurable high performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering Alexander L. Minkin, Joel J. McCormack, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Luke Y. Chang, Karim M. Abdalla +4 more 2010-01-19 $14,923,000
7595806 Method and system for implementing level of detail filtering in a cube mapping application Michael J. M. Toksvig, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. 2009-09-29 $50,476,000
7586496 Shorter footprints for anisotropic texture filtering Walter E. Donovan 2009-09-08 $16,429,000
7369136 Computing anisotropic texture mapping parameters Stuart F. Oberman 2008-05-06 $11,930,000
7221371 Shorter footprints for anisotropic texture filtering Walter E. Donovan 2007-05-22 $24,444,000
7193627 Trilinear optimization for texture filtering Walter E. Donovan 2007-03-20 $38,118,000
7167183 Reorganized anisotropic sampling order Walter E. Donovan, Anders M. Kugler, William Parsons Newhall, Jr. 2007-01-23 $57,984,000
6995767 Trilinear optimization for texture filtering Walter E. Donovan 2006-02-07 $60,353,000