Issued Patents All Time
Showing 26–50 of 82 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8493395 | Hardware override of application programming interface programmed state | Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Henry Packard Moreton, John S. Montrym | 2013-07-23 |
| 8488890 | Partial coverage layers for color compression | David Kirk McAllister, Narayan Kulshrestha | 2013-07-16 |
| 8427495 | Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations | John H. Edmondson, Robert A. Alfieri, Michael F. Harris | 2013-04-23 |
| 8379033 | Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system | Cass W. Everitt, Roger L. Allen, Gary M. Tarolli, John M. Danskin | 2013-02-19 |
| 8341380 | Efficient memory translator with variable size cache line coverage | James Leroy Deming, Mark Mosley, William Craig McKnight, Emmett M. Kilgrariff, Colyn S. Case | 2012-12-25 |
| 8330766 | Zero-bandwidth clears | David Kirk McAllister, Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Emmett M. Kilgariff, Patrick R. Brown, Christian Amsinck +4 more | 2012-12-11 |
| 8319783 | Index-based zero-bandwidth clears | David Kirk McAllister, Peter B. Holmqvist, Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Cass W. Everitt, Emmett M. Kilgariff +2 more | 2012-11-27 |
| 8243069 | Late Z testing for multiple render targets | Mark J. French, Phillip Craig Keslin, Adam Clark Weitkemper | 2012-08-14 |
| 8233004 | Color-compression using automatic reduction of multi-sampled pixels | Daniel P. Wilde, Mark J. French, Robert J. Stoll | 2012-07-31 |
| 8232991 | Z-test result reconciliation with multiple partitions | Mark J. French, Phillip Craig Keslin, Adam Clark Weitkemper | 2012-07-31 |
| 8228338 | Hardware override of application programming interface programmed state | Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Henry Packard Moreton, John S. Montrym | 2012-07-24 |
| 8228328 | Early Z testing for multiple render targets | Mark J. French, Phillip Craig Keslin, Adam Clark Weitkemper | 2012-07-24 |
| 8207975 | Graphics rendering pipeline that supports early-Z and late-Z virtual machines | Mark J. French | 2012-06-26 |
| 8139069 | Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system | Cass W. Everitt, Roger L. Allen, Gary M. Tarolli, John M. Danskin | 2012-03-20 |
| 8085272 | Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system | Cass W. Everitt, Roger L. Allen, Gary M. Tarolli, John M. Danskin, Adam Clark Weitkemper +1 more | 2011-12-27 |
| 8059128 | Apparatus and method for performing blit operations across parallel processors | Justin S. Legakis, Mark J. French, Lukito Muliadi | 2011-11-15 |
| 8059131 | System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled graphics memory | Donald A. Bittel, David Kirk McAllister | 2011-11-15 |
| 7999820 | Methods and systems for reusing memory addresses in a graphics system | Adam Clark Weitkemper, Mark J. French, Cass W. Everitt | 2011-08-16 |
| 7944452 | Methods and systems for reusing memory addresses in a graphics system | Adam Clark Wietkemper, Mark J. French, Cass W. Everitt | 2011-05-17 |
| 7917736 | Latency tolerant pipeline synchronization | Mark J. French | 2011-03-29 |
| 7880747 | Blend optimizations that are conformant to floating-point rules | Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Henry Packard Moreton, Daniel P. Wilde, Mark J. French, Bengt-Olaf Schneider +2 more | 2011-02-01 |
| 7868901 | Method and system for reducing memory bandwidth requirements in an anti-aliasing operation | John H. Edmondson, Bengt-Olaf Schneider, Gary C. King, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Peter B. Holmqvist +1 more | 2011-01-11 |
| 7859541 | Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation | John S. Montrym, David B. Glasco | 2010-12-28 |
| 7830392 | Connecting multiple pixel shaders to a frame buffer without a crossbar | John M. Danskin, John S. Montrym, Mark J. French, John H. Edmondson | 2010-11-09 |
| 7804499 | Variable performance rasterization with constant effort | Franklin C. Crow, Blaise A. Vignon | 2010-09-28 |