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Ross Cunniff — 18 Patents

NVIDIA: 9 patents #838 of 7,811Top 15%
HP: 9 patents #2,170 of 16,619Top 15%
Fort Collins, CO: #234 of 3,421 inventorsTop 7%
Colorado: #2,271 of 40,980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Ross Cunniff has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in November 2017. Ross Cunniff ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Ross Cunniff in Fort Collins, CO, US.

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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9832388 Deinterleaving interleaved high dynamic range image by using YUV interpolation Ricardo J. Motta, Brian Keith Cabral, Sean Midthun Pieper 2017-11-28 $39,910,000
8866833 System, method, and computer program product for providing a dynamic display refresh Tom Petersen, David Wyatt, Paul van der Kouwe, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Laurence Harrison +9 more 2014-10-21 $7,372,000
8564616 Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting Ziyad S. Hakura, John Erik Lindholm, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Robert Ohannessian, Scott R. Whitman +2 more 2013-10-22 $10,004,000
8542247 Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting Ziyad S. Hakura, John Erik Lindholm, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Robert Ohannessian, Scott R. Whitman +2 more 2013-09-24 $15,204,000
8253749 Using affinity masks to control multi-GPU processing Barthold B. Lichtenbelt, Jeffrey F. Juliano, Jeffrey A. Bolz 2012-08-28 $9,085,000
7969444 Distributed rendering of texture data Ralf Biermann, Barthold B. Lichtenbelt, Jeffrey F. Juliano, Jeffrey A. Bolz 2011-06-28 $12,655,000
7898549 Faster clears for three-dimensional modeling applications Matthew J. Craighead 2011-03-01 $18,163,000
7623730 System and method that compensate for rotations of textures defined by parametric texture maps Bradford A. Ritter 2009-11-24 $17,014,000
7528839 Faster clears for three-dimensional modeling applications Matthew J. Craighead 2009-05-05 $30,081,000
7425956 System and method for occlusion testing with deferred rendering Kevin Lefebvre 2008-09-16 $17,111,000
6727899 System and method for occlusion culling graphical data Don Hoffman, Joseph Norman Gee, Howard D. Stroyan 2004-04-27 $9,849,000
6518968 Method and apparatus for performing H-space bump mapping suitable for implementation with H-space lighting in a graphics pipeline of a computer graphics display system Bradford A. Ritter 2003-02-11 $29,421,000
6476806 Method and apparatus for performing occlusion testing while exploiting frame to frame temporal coherence Howard D. Stroyan, Norman Gee 2002-11-05 $15,798,000
6396502 System and method for implementing accumulation buffer operations in texture mapping hardware 2002-05-28 $23,332,000
5945992 Multilevel, client-server, large model traverser 1999-08-31 $57,126,000
5936632 Method for fast downloading of textures to accelerated graphics hardware and the elimination of extra software copies of texels Bradley L. Saunders 1999-08-10 $52,903,000
5842015 System and method for real-time control of hardware in a multiprocessing environment J. Norman Gee 1998-11-24 $94,286,000
5771045 Method for polygon decomposition Karen M. Ghavam 1998-06-23 $40,800,000