Alan Heirich
15Patents
6h-index
15Co-inventors
63Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 8, 1999 → Dec 1, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6753878B1 | Parallel pipelined merge engines | Physics | 108 | Expired |
| US6359618B1 | Using irradiance textures for photorealistic image generation | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6516032B1 | First-order difference compression for interleaved image data in a high-speed image compositor | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US7289119B2 | Statistical rendering acceleration | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US7548244B2 | Interactive debugging and monitoring of shader programs executing on a graphics processor | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US8223149B2 | Cone-culled soft shadows | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7788635B2 | Technique for processing a computer program | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US9223551B1 | Rendergraph compilation method and use thereof for low-latency execution | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7714858B2 | Distributed rendering of interactive soft shadows | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8856760B2 | Streaming programming generator | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8970613B2 | Render tree caching | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9524541B2 | Method and apparatus for image filter tuning | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7907143B2 | Interactive debugging and monitoring of shader programs executing on a graphics processor | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US12296849B2 | Method and system for feasibility-based operation of an autonomous agent | Performing Operations; Transporting | 0 | Active |
| US7755626B2 | Cone-culled soft shadows | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.