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Thomas Kong — 12 Patents

NVIDIA: 7 patents #1,065 of 7,811Top 15%
LILitegear: 2 patents #3 of 10Top 30%
SNSycamore Networks: 2 patents #11 of 58Top 20%
NNNexabit Networks: 1 patents #5 of 18Top 30%
Brookline, MA: #357 of 3,196 inventorsTop 15%
Massachusetts: #10,639 of 88,656 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Thomas Kong has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in March 2023. Thomas Kong ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Thomas Kong in Brookline, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2001.peak 12001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11602023 Auto-gradient combinations for pixel compensation Albert DeMayo, Alejandro Vazquez, Lee Parker, Michael Wagner 2023-03-07
11375590 Auto-gradient combinations for pixel compensation Albert DeMayo, Alejandro Vazquez, Lee Parker, Michael Wagner 2022-06-28
8711156 Method and system for remapping processing elements in a pipeline of a graphics processing unit Dominic Acocella, Timothy J. McDonald, Robert W. Gimby 2014-04-29 $7,752,000
8094158 Using programmable constant buffers for multi-threaded processing Roger L. Allen, Cass W. Everitt, Henry Packard Moreton 2012-01-10 $6,241,000
7877565 Constant versioning for multi-threaded processing Roger L. Allen, Cass W. Everitt, Henry Packard Moreton, Simon Moy 2011-01-25 $20,365,000
7400326 System and method for delivering multiple data streams via multiple buses Dominic Acocella, Robert W. Gimby, Andrew D. Bowen, Christopher James Goodman, David C. Tannenbaum +2 more 2008-07-15 $28,598,000
7233334 Storage buffers with reference counters to improve utilization Dominic Acocella, Henry Packard Moreton, Robert W. Gimby, Andrew D. Bowen 2007-06-19 $53,540,000
7075539 Apparatus and method for processing dual format floating-point data in a graphics processing system Steven G. Foster, Shaun Ho, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos 2006-07-11 $25,333,000
6927781 Method and apparatus for averaging sub-samples 2005-08-09 $47,409,000
6557101 Methods and apparatus for upgrading programmable control logic without disturbing network traffic flowing through functional elements controlled by the control logic Eric MacDonald, Paolo Forte 2003-04-29 $9,961,000
6430201 Method and apparatus for transporting gigabit ethernet and fiber channel signals in wavelength-division multiplexed systems Murat Azizoglu, Eric Swanson 2002-08-06 $12,263,000
6259699 System architecture for and method of processing packets and/or cells in a common switch Zbigniew Opalka, Vijay Kumar Aggarwal, Christopher Firth, Carl Costantino 2001-07-10