Alan Heirich — 15 Patents at Sony

Alan Heirich has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in May 2025. Alan Heirich ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Alan Heirich in Ann Arbor, MI, US.

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Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12296849	Method and system for feasibility-based operation of an autonomous agent	Sajan Patel, Ahmed Elshaarany, Mitesh Agrawal, Edwin B. Olson	2025-05-13
9524541	Method and apparatus for image filter tuning	—	2016-12-20
9223551	Rendergraph compilation method and use thereof for low-latency execution	—	2015-12-29
8970613	Render tree caching	Giridhar S. Murthy, David Hayward	2015-03-03	$69,304,000
8856760	Streaming programming generator	Benedict R. Gaster	2014-10-07	$1,136,000
8223149	Cone-culled soft shadows	Louis Bavoil	2012-07-17	$81,000
7907143	Interactive debugging and monitoring of shader programs executing on a graphics processor	—	2011-03-15	$369,000
7788635	Technique for processing a computer program	—	2010-08-31	$286,000
7755626	Cone-culled soft shadows	Louis Bavoil	2010-07-13	$302,000
7714858	Distributed rendering of interactive soft shadows	Michael Isard, Mark Alexander Shand	2010-05-11	$17,779,000
7548244	Interactive debugging and monitoring of shader programs executing on a graphics processor	—	2009-06-16	$1,402,000
7289119	Statistical rendering acceleration	Axel Mamode	2007-10-30	$1,254,000
6753878	Parallel pipelined merge engines	Laurent Moll, Mark Alexander Shand, Albert Tam, Robert W. Horst	2004-06-22	$12,284,000
6516032	First-order difference compression for interleaved image data in a high-speed image compositor	Pankaj Mehra, Robert W. Horst	2003-02-04
6359618	Using irradiance textures for photorealistic image generation	—	2002-03-19	$24,538,000

Alan Heirich — 15 Patents

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