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Roger L. Allen — 21 Patents

NVIDIA: 21 patents #288 of 7,811Top 4%
San Jose, CA: #3,111 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Roger L. Allen has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in October 2021. Roger L. Allen ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Roger L. Allen in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2012.peak 52004: 1 patents20042008: 2 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 4 patents20102011: 3 patents20112012: 5 patents20122013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents20152021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11144087 Efficient performance monitoring of integrated circuit(s) having distributed clocks Alan Menezes, Tom Ogletree, Shounak KAMALAPURKAR, Abhijat Ranade 2021-10-12 $626,406,000
9030480 Triggering performance event capture via pipelined state bundles Ziyad S. Hakura, Thomas M. Ogletree 2015-05-12 $21,916,000
8928676 Method for parallel fine rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline Walter R. Steiner, Franklin C. Crow, Craig M. Wittenbrink, Douglas A. Voorhies 2015-01-06 $6,463,000
8379033 Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system Steven E. Molnar, Cass W. Everitt, Gary M. Tarolli, John M. Danskin 2013-02-19 $7,946,000
8253748 Shader performance registers Brett W. Coon 2012-08-28 $9,085,000
8212824 Apparatus and method for serial save and restore of graphics processing unit state information Nitij Mangal 2012-07-03 $8,387,000
8139069 Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system Steven E. Molnar, Cass W. Everitt, Gary M. Tarolli, John M. Danskin 2012-03-20 $19,298,000
8134570 System and method for graphics attribute packing for pixel shader usage Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Andrew Tao, Svetoslav D. Tzvetkov, Yan Yan Tang, Elena Ing 2012-03-13 $7,465,000
8094158 Using programmable constant buffers for multi-threaded processing Cass W. Everitt, Henry Packard Moreton, Thomas Kong 2012-01-10 $6,241,000
8085272 Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system Steven E. Molnar, Cass W. Everitt, Gary M. Tarolli, John M. Danskin, Adam Clark Weitkemper +1 more 2011-12-27 $11,786,000
7911471 Method and apparatus for loop and branch instructions in a programmable graphics pipeline Harold Robert Feldman Zatz 2011-03-22 $24,505,000
7877565 Constant versioning for multi-threaded processing Cass W. Everitt, Henry Packard Moreton, Thomas Kong, Simon Moy 2011-01-25 $20,365,000
7852340 Scalable shader architecture Rui M. Bastos, Karim M. Abdalla, Christian Rouet, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Johnny S. Rhoades +6 more 2010-12-14 $10,181,000
7809928 Generating event signals for performance register control using non-operative instructions Brett W. Coon, Ian A. Buck, John R. Nickolls 2010-10-05 $7,741,000
7711990 Apparatus and method for debugging a graphics processing unit in response to a debug instruction John R. Nickolls, Brian Keith Cabral, Brett W. Coon, Robert C. Keller 2010-05-04 $16,517,000
7663621 Cylindrical wrapping using shader hardware Harold Robert Zable, Robert Ohannessian 2010-02-16 $18,312,000
7600155 Apparatus and method for monitoring and debugging a graphics processing unit John R. Nickolls, Brian Keith Cabral, Brett W. Coon, Robert C. Keller 2009-10-06 $15,771,000
7542042 Subpicture overlay using fragment shader Rui M. Bastos, Karim M. Abdalla, Justin S. Legakis 2009-06-02 $11,513,000
7439979 Shader with cache memory Chad D. Walker, Rui M. Bestos 2008-10-21 $12,034,000
7385607 Scalable shader architecture Rui M. Bastos, Karim M. Abdalla, Christian Rouet, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Johnny S. Rhoades +6 more 2008-06-10 $28,739,000
6825843 Method and apparatus for loop and branch instructions in a programmable graphics pipeline Harold Robert Feldman Zatz 2004-11-30 $14,003,000