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Eric Demers — 28 Patents

Qualcomm: 13 patents #1,649 of 12,104Top 15%
AMD: 8 patents #1,515 of 9,280Top 20%
Nintendo Co.: 4 patents #436 of 1,476Top 30%
TRTripar: 1 patents #7 of 13Top 55%
GE: 1 patents #19,940 of 36,430Top 55%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
San Diego, CA: #1,411 of 23,606 inventorsTop 6%
California: #19,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Eric Demers has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in February 2025. Eric Demers ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Eric Demers in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2010.peak 32002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents2013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212023: 2 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12229864 Runtime mechanism to optimize shader execution flow Yun Du, Andrew Evan Gruber, Chun Yu, Baoguang Yang, Chihong Zhang +6 more 2025-02-18
12229215 Performing matrix multiplication in a streaming processor Yun Du, Gang Zhong, Fei Wei, Yibin Zhang, Jing Han +6 more 2025-02-18
12067666 Run-time mechanism for optimal shader Yun Du, Andrew Evan Gruber, Chun Yu, Chihong Zhang, Baoguang Yang +4 more 2024-08-20 $15,229,000
11954758 Dynamic wave pairing Yun Du, Andrew Evan Gruber, Zilin Ying, Chunling Hu, Baoguang Yang +3 more 2024-04-09 $17,363,000
11829439 Methods and apparatus to perform matrix multiplication in a streaming processor Yun Du, Gang Zhong, Fei Wei, Yibin Zhang, Jing Han +6 more 2023-11-28 $9,697,000
11657471 Methods and apparatus for constant data storage Yun Du, Andrew Evan Gruber, Chihong Zhang, Jian Jiang, Gang Zhong +3 more 2023-05-23 $8,812,000
11204765 Deferred GPR allocation for texture/load instruction block Yun Du, Fei Wei, Gang Zhong, Minjie Huang, Jian Jiang +8 more 2021-12-21 $43,063,000
11132760 Graphics instruction operands alias Yun Du, Andrew Evan Gruber, Chihong Zhang, Gang Zhong, Jian Jiang +6 more 2021-09-28 $32,666,000
10558460 General purpose register allocation in streaming processor Yun Du, Liang Han, Lin Chen, Chihong Zhang, Hongjiang Shang +5 more 2020-02-11 $23,660,000
10509588 System and method for controlling memory frequency using feed-forward compression statistics Serag Gadelrab, Sudeep Ravi Kottilingal, Meghal Varia, Pooja Sinha, Ujwal Patel +6 more 2019-12-17 $21,193,000
9824458 Dynamically switching between late depth testing and conservative depth testing Shambhoo Khandelwal, Yang Xia, Xuefeng Tang, Jian Liang, Tao Wang +1 more 2017-11-21 $12,071,000
9489313 Conditional page fault control for page residency David A. Gotwalt, Thomas Edwin Frisinger, Andrew Evan Gruber, Colin Christopher Sharp 2016-11-08 $7,263,000
9218289 Multi-core compute cache coherency with a release consistency memory ordering model Bohuslav Rychlik, Tzung Ren Tzeng, Andrew Evan Gruber, Alexei V. Bourd, Colin Christopher Sharp 2015-12-22 $14,745,000
8933945 Dividing work among multiple graphics pipelines using a super-tiling technique Mark Leather 2015-01-13
8615637 Systems and methods for processing memory requests in a multi-processor system using a probe engine Philip J. Rogers, Warren Fritz Kruger, Mark Hummel 2013-12-24 $5,340,000
7796133 Unified shader Mark Leather 2010-09-14
7748869 Recessed lighting fixtures with projector accessory Lauren Sevack, Lloyd Sevack, Mario Viscusi, Costa Dampollas, Julius Posch 2010-07-06
7656416 Apparatus for generating anti-aliased and stippled 3d lines, points and surfaces using multi-dimensional procedural texture coordinates Robert S. Mace 2010-02-02
7633506 Parallel pipeline graphics system Mark Leather 2009-12-15
7545387 Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid Mark Leather 2009-06-09
7307640 Method and apparatus for efficient generation of texture coordinate displacements for implementing emboss-style bump mapping in a graphics rendering system Mark Leather, Mark Segal 2007-12-11
7280119 Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid Mark Leather 2007-10-09
7109992 Apparatus for generating efficient wide-line ends Robert S. Mace 2006-09-19 $13,281,000
7044452 Hydraulic turbine draft tube deflector with enhanced dissolved oxygen Normand Desy 2006-05-16 $47,305,000
6980218 Method and apparatus for efficient generation of texture coordinate displacements for implementing emboss-style bump mapping in a graphics rendering system Mark Leather, Mark Segal 2005-12-27