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Walter E. Donovan — 73 Patents

NVIDIA: 67 patents #34 of 7,811Top 1%
RERendition: 2 patents #3 of 9Top 35%
Oracle: 2 patents #5,565 of 14,854Top 40%
Micron: 2 patents #4,038 of 6,374Top 65%
Saratoga, CA: #101 of 2,933 inventorsTop 4%
California: #4,150 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #26,958 of 4,157,543Top 1%
73 Patents All Time
Walter E. Donovan has been granted 73 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in August 2023. Walter E. Donovan ranks #26,958 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.65%). Patent records list Walter E. Donovan in Saratoga, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 73 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11722671 Managing virtual machine density by controlling server resource Rouslan Dimitrov, Chris Amsinck, Viktor Grigoryevich Vandanov, Santanu Dutta, Olivier Lapicque 2023-08-08 $2,376,795,000
11012694 Dynamically shifting video rendering tasks between a server and a client Rouslan Dimitrov, Chris Amsinck, Viktor Grigoryevich Vandanov, Santanu Dutta, Olivier Lapicque 2021-05-18 $521,721,000
10713756 HW-assisted upscaling and multi-sampling using a high resolution depth buffer Rouslan Dimitrov, Lei Yang, Chris Amsinck, Eric B. Lum, Rui M. Bastos 2020-07-14 $511,152,000
10218988 Method and system for interpolating base and delta values of associated tiles in an image Tyson J. Bergland 2019-02-26 $135,756,000
10158858 Method and system for index compression for fixed block size texture formats and for non-linear interpolation of index values along an edge in a tile 2018-12-18 $201,212,000
9865035 Image scaling techniques 2018-01-09 $1,246,632,000
9819969 Generalization of methods and systems for image compression while encoding at least one extra bit Marilyn Jean Lang 2017-11-14 $207,393,000
9697641 Alpha-to-coverage using virtual samples Steven E. Molnar, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Christian Amsinck, Robert Ohannessian 2017-07-04
9384410 Method and system for image compression while encoding at least one extra bit 2016-07-05 $21,543,000
9147264 Method and system for quantizing and squeezing base values of associated tiles in an image Tyson J. Bergland 2015-09-29 $13,577,000
9081681 Method and system for implementing compressed normal maps 2015-07-14 $9,003,000
8942474 Method and system for interpolating index values of associated tiles in an image Eric S. Werness, Cass W. Everitt 2015-01-27 $3,715,000
8918440 Data decompression with extra precision Douglas H. Rogers, Gary C. King 2014-12-23 $18,253,000
8669999 Alpha-to-coverage value determination using virtual samples Emmett M. Kilgariff, Steven E. Molnar, Christian Amsinck, Robert Ohannessian 2014-03-11 $15,136,000
8456481 Block linear memory ordering of texture data techniques Emmett M. Kilgariff, Karim M. Abdalla, Joel J. McCormack 2013-06-04 $7,022,000
8436868 Block linear memory ordering of texture data Emmett M. Kilgariff, Karim M. Abdalla, Joel J. McCormack 2013-05-07 $5,473,000
8212835 Systems and methods for smooth transitions to bi-cubic magnification Christopher J. Migdal, Alexander L. Minkin 2012-07-03 $8,387,000
8098257 Filtering unit for floating-point texture data Anders M. Kugler, Christopher D. S. Donham 2012-01-17 $16,952,000
8078656 Data decompression with extra precision Douglas H. Rogers, Gary C. King 2011-12-13 $22,972,000
8065354 Compression of 16 bit data using predictor values David Kirk McAllister 2011-11-22 $12,461,000
8023752 Decompression of 16 bit data using predictor values David Kirk McAllister 2011-09-20 $31,253,000
7983498 Low dynamic range 3-channel color compression 2011-07-19 $23,388,000
7982745 Trilinear optimization for texture filtering Paul S. Heckbert 2011-07-19 $23,388,000
7978921 Low dynamic range 3-channel color decompression 2011-07-12 $18,407,000
7961195 Two component texture map compression Douglas H. Rogers, Gary C. King 2011-06-14 $17,697,000