Inventor
Joel J. McCormack
Inventor
Boulder, CO, US
Overview
Patents· 27 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G06Tprimary
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general39%
G06FElectric digital data processing32%
G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information22%
H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication2%
Y02BClimate change mitigation technologies related to buildings, e.g. housing, house appliances or related end-user applications2%
Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use2%
PatentTitleYear
9,720,858'Technique for performing memory access operations via texture hardware'20179,697,006'Technique for performing memory access operations via texture hardware'20179,595,075'Load/store operations in texture hardware'20179,448,935'Surface resource view hash for coherent cache operations in texture processing hardware'20169,348,762'Technique for accessing content-addressable memory'20168,930,636'Relaxed coherency between different caches'20158,456,481'Block linear memory ordering of texture data techniques'20138,436,868'Block linear memory ordering of texture data'20137,916,149'Block linear memory ordering of texture data'20117,884,831'Reconfigurable high-performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering'20117,649,538'Reconfigurable high performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering'20107,336,283'Efficient hardware A-buffer using three-dimensional allocation of fragment memory'20087,081,903'Efficient movement of fragment stamp'20066,714,196'Method and apparatus for tiled polygon traversal'20046,633,297'System and method for producing an antialiased image using a merge buffer'20036,329,977'Pre-filtered antialiased lines using distance functions'20016,292,193'Techniques for anisotropic texture mapping using multiple space-invariant filtering operations per pixel'20016,204,859'Method and apparatus for compositing colors of images with memory constraints for storing pixel data'20016,128,000'Full-scene antialiasing using improved supersampling techniques'20006,109,777'Division with limited carry-propagation in quotient accumulation'20006,112,267'Hierarchical ring buffers for buffering data between processor and I/O device permitting data writes by processor and data reads by I/O device simultaneously directed at different buffers at different levels'20006,112,318'Performance counters controlled by programmable logic'20006,085,292'Apparatus and method for providing non-blocking pipelined cache'20005,870,109'Graphic system with read/write overlap detector'19995,781,201'Method for providing improved graphics performance through atypical pixel storage in video memory'19985,696,945'Method for quickly painting and copying shallow pixels on a deep frame buffer'19975,559,953'Method for increasing the performance of lines drawn into a framebuffer memory'1996Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
1996–2001Patents assigned to DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP (8)· patent assignee history
1996–1997Based in Woodside, CA, US· patent location history
1998Based in Portola Valley, CA, US· patent location history
1999–2017Based in Boulder, CO, US· patent location history
2000–2001Patents assigned to COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP (4)· patent assignee history
2003–2008Patents assigned to HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO (4)· patent assignee history
2010–2017Patents assigned to NVIDIA CORP (11)· patent assignee history
2013–2015Patents assigned to KILGARIFF EMMETT M (3)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA CORP | 11 | 2010–2017 |
| DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP | 8 | 1996–2001 |
| COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP | 4 | 2000–2001 |
| HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO | 4 | 2003–2008 |
| KILGARIFF EMMETT M | 3 | 2013–2015 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Boulder, CO, US | 24 | 1999–2017 |
| Woodside, California, US | 2 | 1996–1997 |
| Portola Valley, California, US | 1 | 1998 |