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Thomas Edwin Frisinger — 15 Patents

Qualcomm: 13 patents #1,649 of 12,104Top 15%
AMD: 2 patents #5,607 of 9,280Top 65%
Shrewsbury, MA: #100 of 938 inventorsTop 15%
Massachusetts: #8,211 of 88,656 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Thomas Edwin Frisinger has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in August 2025. Thomas Edwin Frisinger ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Thomas Edwin Frisinger in Shrewsbury, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2024.peak 42002: 1 patents20022012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182021: 1 patents20212022: 3 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 4 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12380625 Methods and apparatus for selection of rendering modes Srihari Babu Alla, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar, Avinash Seetharamaiah, Andrew Evan Gruber, Richard Hammerstone +2 more 2025-08-05
12056790 Methods and apparatus to facilitate a dedicated bindless state processor Yun Du, Andrew Evan Gruber, Chun Yu, Chihong Zhang, Richard Hammerstone +4 more 2024-08-06 $15,639,000
12056804 Fast incremental shared constants Richard Hammerstone, Andrew Evan Gruber, Gang Zhong, Yun Du, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar 2024-08-06 $15,639,000
12008677 Compatible compression for different types of image views Srihari Babu Alla, Tao Wang, Andrew Evan Gruber, Matthew Netsch, Richard Hammerstone 2024-06-11 $20,939,000
12002142 Performance overhead optimization in GPU scoping Tushar GARG, Nigel T. Poole, Vishwanath Shashikant NIKAM, Vijay Kumar Donthireddy 2024-06-04 $20,902,000
11694384 Fast incremental shared constants Richard Hammerstone, Andrew Evan Gruber, Gang Zhong, Yun Du, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar 2023-07-04
11373267 Methods and apparatus for reducing the transfer of rendering information Tao Wang, Shambhoo Khandelwal, Andrew Evan Gruber, Shangmei Yu, Jing Gao +2 more 2022-06-28 $17,551,000
11373268 Apparatus and method for graphics processing unit hybrid rendering Srihari Babu Alla, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar, Avinash Seetharamaiah, Andrew Evan Gruber, Richard Hammerstone +1 more 2022-06-28 $17,551,000
11321804 Techniques for flexible rendering operations Richard Hammerstone, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar, Avinash Seetharamaiah, Shangmei Yu, Srihari Babu Alla 2022-05-03 $21,913,000
11176734 GPU hardware-based depth buffer direction tracking Srihari Babu Alla, Adimulam RAMESH BABU, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar, Avinash Seetharamaiah, Tao Wang +2 more 2021-11-16 $40,573,000
10157443 Deferred batching of incremental constant loads Richard Hammerstone, Andrew Evan Gruber, Nigel T. Poole 2018-12-18 $7,478,000
9489313 Conditional page fault control for page residency David A. Gotwalt, Andrew Evan Gruber, Eric Demers, Colin Christopher Sharp 2016-11-08 $7,263,000
8931108 Hardware enforced content protection for graphics processing units Colin Christopher Sharp, Sudeep Ravi Kottilingal, Andrew Evan Gruber 2015-01-06 $8,379,000
8233006 Texture level tracking, feedback, and clamping system for graphics processors Mark S. Grossman, Daniel M. Gessel 2012-07-31 $3,897,000
6392654 Method and apparatus for processing data with improved concurrency Allen A. Gallotta, Adrian Muntianu 2002-05-21 $5,574,000