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NVIDIA Corporation

5,302Patents
4,615Active
5,302Granted
67Portfolio score

Filing activity: Apr 14, 1995 → Jul 12, 2024 · 1,272 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

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US7170515B1 Rendering pipeline Physics 186 Expired
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US7861060B1 Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays and thread identifier values to determine processing behavior Physics 169 Active
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US7535913B2 Gigabit ethernet adapter supporting the iSCSI and IPSEC protocols Electricity 154 Expired
US6947047B1 Method and system for programmable pipelined graphics processing with branching instructions Physics 146 Expired
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US7015913B1 Method and apparatus for multithreaded processing of data in a programmable graphics processor Physics 141 Expired
US7627723B1 Atomic memory operators in a parallel processor Physics 137 Active
US9177413B2 Unique primitive identifier generation Physics 135 Active
US9355483B2 Variable fragment shading with surface recasting Physics 133 Active
US9241146B2 Interleaved approach to depth-image-based rendering of stereoscopic images Electricity 131 Active
US9342857B2 Techniques for locally modifying draw calls Physics 131 Active
US9165399B2 System, method, and computer program product for inputting modified coverage data into a pixel shader Physics 130 Active
US9129443B2 Cache-efficient processor and method of rendering indirect illumination using interleaving and sub-image blur Physics 130 Active
US9262797B2 Multi-sample surface processing using one sample Physics 130 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.