Inventor

Gordon Clyde Fossum

Inventor

Austin, TX, US

Overview

38→

Patents

1993–2015

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 38 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general63%

G06FElectric digital data processing30%

G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information3%

H03HImpedance networks, e.g. resonant circuits3%

H03MCoding3%

PatentTitleYear

8,959,135'Data structure for tiling and packetizing a sparse matrix'2015 8,769,216'Optimizing output vector data generation using a formatted matrix data structure'2014 8,762,655'Optimizing output vector data generation using a formatted matrix data structure'2014 8,676,874'Data structure for tiling and packetizing a sparse matrix'2014 8,665,271'System and method for iterative interactive ray tracing in a multiprocessor environment'2014 8,525,826'System for iterative interactive ray tracing in a multiprocessor environment'2013 7,986,330'Method and apparatus for generating gammacorrected antialiased lines'2011 7,864,187'System and method for cache optimized data formatting'2011 7,805,579'Methods and arrangements for multi-buffering data'2010 7,737,970'Ray tracing with depth buffered display'2010 7,694,036'System and product for DMA controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionality'2010 7,542,044'Optimized specular highlight generation'2009 7,538,767'Adaptive span computation during ray casting'2009 7,515,152'Adaptive sampling of a static data set'2009 7,456,837'Optimized specular highlight generation'2008 7,439,973'Ray tracing with depth buffered display'2008 7,406,589'Processor having efficient function estimate instructions'2008 7,362,330'Adaptive span computation when ray casting'2008 7,363,397'System and method for DMA controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionality'2008 7,345,687'Adaptive sampling of a static data set'2008 7,298,377'System and method for cache optimized data formatting'2007 7,212,199'System and method for terrain rendering using a limited memory footprint'2007 7,143,126'Method and apparatus for implementing power of two floating point estimation'2006 7,113,184'System and method for blending data sampling techniques'2006 6,965,330'System and method for improved quality signal re-sampling using a weighted signal average'2005 6,924,802'Efficient function interpolation using SIMD vector permute functionality'2005 6,681,237'Exponentiation circuit for graphics adapter'2004 6,654,777'Single precision inverse square root generator'2003 6,628,281'Method and system for computing the intersection of a bounding volume and screen-aligned plane'2003 6,628,284'Method and apparatus for processing graphics perspective transformations'2003 6,606,097'Circuit for generating frame buffer values'2003 6,559,856'Apparatus for fixed-point graphics and method therefor'2003 6,243,097'Bounding volume for 3D graphic primitives'2001 5,748,863'Method and system for fast interpolation of depth buffer values in a computer graphics display system'1998 5,630,039'Tessellating complex in polygons in modeling coordinates'1997 5,276,783'Tessellating complex polygons in modeling coordinates'1994 5,245,700'Adjustment of Z-buffer values for lines on the surface of a polygon'1993 5,220,646'Single pass hidden line removal using Z-buffers'1993

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1993–2015Patents assigned to IBM (38)· patent assignee history

1993–2015Based in Austin, TX, US· patent location history

2013–2014Patents assigned to FOSSUM GORDON C (2)· patent assignee history

2013–2014Patents assigned to MADRUGA JOAQUIN (2)· patent assignee history

2013–2014Patents assigned to MINOR BARRY L (2)· patent assignee history

2013–2014Based in Ausin, TX, US· patent location history

2014–2015Patents assigned to FOSSUM GORDON CLYDE (4)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
IBM	38	1993–2015
FOSSUM GORDON CLYDEself	4	2014–2015
FOSSUM GORDON Cself	2	2013–2014
MADRUGA JOAQUIN	2	2013–2014
MINOR BARRY L	2	2013–2014

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Austin, Texas, US	36	1993–2015
Ausin, Texas, US	2	2013–2014