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Steven E. Molnar — 85 Patents

NVIDIA: 82 patents #17 of 7,811Top 1%
UHUniversity Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill: 1 patents #769 of 1,688Top 50%
UCUniversity Of North Carolina: 1 patents #81 of 213Top 40%
Chapel Hill, NC: #17 of 1,999 inventorsTop 1%
North Carolina: #232 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,018 of 4,157,543Top 1%
85 Patents All Time
Steven E. Molnar has been granted 85 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in December 2025. Steven E. Molnar ranks #20,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.48%). Patent records list Steven E. Molnar in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 85 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511234 Managing a programmable cache control mapping table in a system level cache Ashutosh Pandey, Mirko Andjic, Amit Pabalkar, Harold W. Cain, III, Pratyusha Sharma 2025-12-30
12481590 Managing a system level cache Ashutosh Pandey, Mirko Andjic, Amit Pabalkar, Harold W. Cain, III, Pratyusha Sharma 2025-11-25
12443363 High bandwidth extended memory in a parallel processing system Hemayet Hossain, Joanne Rachel Evans, Wishwesh Anil Gandhi, Lacky V. Shah, Vyas Venkataraman +6 more 2025-10-14
10452566 Storing secure state information in translation lookaside buffer cache lines James Leroy Deming, Michael A. Woodmansee 2019-10-22
10114760 Method and system for implementing multi-stage translation of virtual addresses Jay Kishora Gupta, James Leroy Deming, Samuel H. Duncan, Jeffrey M. Smith 2018-10-30 $133,651,000
10043234 System and method for frame buffer decompression and/or compression Jonathan Dunaisky, Christian Amsinck, Rui M. Bastos, Eric B. Lum, Justin Cobb +1 more 2018-08-07 $279,965,000
9823869 System and method of protecting data in dynamically-allocated regions of memory Franciscus W. Sijstermans, Gilberto Contreras, Jay Huang, Jay Kishora Gupta, Michael A. Wasserman +1 more 2017-11-21 $112,129,000
9697641 Alpha-to-coverage using virtual samples Emmett M. Kilgariff, Walter E. Donovan, Christian Amsinck, Robert Ohannessian 2017-07-04
9530189 Alternate reduction ratios and threshold mechanisms for framebuffer compression Jonathan Dunaisky, David Kirk McAllister, Narayan Kulshrestha, Rui M. Bastos, Joseph Detmer +1 more 2016-12-27 $156,812,000
9406149 Selecting and representing multiple compression methods David Kirk McAllister, Narayan Kulshrestha 2016-08-02 $41,366,000
9245129 System and method for protecting data by returning a protect signal with the data Jay Kishora Gupta, Jay Huang, Parthasarathy Sriram, James Leroy Deming 2016-01-26 $11,826,000
9058792 Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations John H. Edmondson, Robert A. Alfieri, Michael F. Harris 2015-06-16 $9,891,000
8941653 Order-preserving distributed rasterizer Emmett M. Kilgariff, John S. Rhoades, Timothy John Purcell, Sean J. Treichler, Ziyad S. Hakura +2 more 2015-01-27 $3,715,000
8933933 Optimizing a graphics rendering pipeline using early Z-mode Mark J. French, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Walter R. Steiner, Douglas A. Voorhies, Adam Clark Weitkemper 2015-01-13 $18,209,000
8928681 Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations John H. Edmondson, Robert A. Alfieri, Michael F. Harris 2015-01-06 $6,463,000
8862823 Compression status caching David B. Glasco, Cass W. Everitt, David Kirk McAllister, Emmett M. Kilgariff, George R. Lynch +4 more 2014-10-14 $3,953,000
8760460 Hardware-managed virtual buffers using a shared memory for load distribution Emmett M. Kilgariff, Sean J. Treichler, Johnny S. Rhoades, Gernot Schaufler, Dale L. Kirkland +3 more 2014-06-24 $4,107,000
8730249 Parallel array architecture for a graphics processor John M. Danskin, John S. Montrym, John Erik Lindholm, Mark J. French 2014-05-20 $3,876,000
8704836 Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers Johnny S. Rhoades, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Michael C. Shebanow, Ziyad S. Hakura, Dale L. Kirkland +1 more 2014-04-22 $4,341,000
8692844 Method and system for efficient antialiased rendering David B. Kirk, John S. Montrym, Douglas A. Voorhies 2014-04-08 $7,014,000
8669999 Alpha-to-coverage value determination using virtual samples Walter E. Donovan, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Christian Amsinck, Robert Ohannessian 2014-03-11 $15,136,000
8627041 Efficient line and page organization for compression status bit caching David B. Glasco, Peter B. Holmqvist, George R. Lynch, Patrick R. Marchand, Karan Mehra +2 more 2014-01-07 $9,683,000
8605086 Hybrid multisample/supersample antialiasing Cass W. Everitt 2013-12-10 $3,375,000
8605087 Hybrid multisample/supersample antialiasing Cass W. Everitt 2013-12-10 $3,375,000
8605102 Rasterization tile coalescer and reorder buffer Timothy John Purcell 2013-12-10 $3,375,000