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Robert A. Alfieri — 53 Patents

NVIDIA: 49 patents #70 of 7,811Top 1%
DGData General: 2 patents #96 of 327Top 30%
EMEmc: 2 patents #1,324 of 3,345Top 40%
Chapel Hill, NC: #40 of 1,999 inventorsTop 3%
North Carolina: #512 of 45,564 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
Robert A. Alfieri has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2025. Robert A. Alfieri ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Robert A. Alfieri in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12361633 Using importance resampling to reduce the memory incoherence of light sampling Christopher Ryan Wyman, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Schuyler Shirley 2025-07-15
12159344 Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine Peter Schuyler Shirley 2024-12-03 $4,926,866,000
11908064 Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine Peter Schuyler Shirley 2024-02-20 $2,198,118,000
11875444 Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine Peter Schuyler Shirley 2024-01-16 $1,652,504,000
11853764 Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine Peter Schuyler Shirley 2023-12-26 $1,427,257,000
11830123 Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine Peter Schuyler Shirley 2023-11-28 $1,114,807,000
11704860 Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine Peter Schuyler Shirley 2023-07-18 $978,332,000
11663773 Using importance resampling to reduce the memory incoherence of light sampling Christopher Ryan Wyman, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Schuyler Shirley 2023-05-30 $1,391,470,000
9685207 Sequential access memory with master-slave latch pairs and method of operating 2017-06-20 $368,127,000
9323502 System, method, and computer program product for altering a line of code 2016-04-26 $20,593,000
9281817 Power conservation using gray-coded address sequencing Kelvin Kwok-Cheung Ng 2016-03-08 $64,346,000
9244810 Debugger graphical user interface system, method, and computer program product 2016-01-26 $11,826,000
9189199 Folded FIFO memory generator 2015-11-17 $39,745,000
9171115 System, method, and computer program product for translating a common hardware database into a logic code model 2015-10-27 $9,974,000
9106401 Deterministic synchronization for transmitting signals between different clock domains 2015-08-11 $11,298,000
9058792 Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations John H. Edmondson, Michael F. Harris, Steven E. Molnar 2015-06-16 $9,891,000
9021408 System, method, and computer program product for translating a source database into a common hardware database 2015-04-28 $32,191,000
9015646 System, method, and computer program product for translating a hardware language into a source database 2015-04-21 $12,738,000
9015643 System, method, and computer program product for applying a callback function to data values 2015-04-21 $12,738,000
8963940 Isochronous hub contracts Duncan A. Riach, Brijesh Tripathi, Patrick R. Marchand 2015-02-24 $8,823,000
8943448 System, method, and computer program product for providing a debugger using a common hardware database 2015-01-27 $3,715,000
8930861 System, method, and computer program product for constructing a data flow and identifying a construct 2015-01-06 $6,463,000
8928681 Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations John H. Edmondson, Michael F. Harris, Steven E. Molnar 2015-01-06 $6,463,000
8789006 System, method, and computer program product for testing an integrated circuit from a command line 2014-07-22 $3,194,000
8427495 Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations John H. Edmondson, Michael F. Harris, Steven E. Molnar 2013-04-23 $3,581,000