Inventor · Fort Collins, CO, US

Brian D. Rauchfuss

12Patents
7h-index
22Co-inventors
66Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 16, 1990 → Jul 23, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5185856A Arithmetic and logic processing unit for computer graphics system Physics 83 Expired
US5012163A Method and apparatus for gamma correcting pixel value data in a computer graphics system Physics 33 Expired
US5193148A Method and apparatus for pixel clipping source and destination windows in a graphics system Physics 20 Expired
US5301269A Window-relative dither circuit Physics 15 Expired
US6816167B1 Anisotropic filtering technique Electricity 13 Expired
US5295245A Data rotator for rotating pixel data in three dimensions Physics 10 Expired
US9996386B2 Mid-thread pre-emption with software assisted context switch Physics 10 Active
US5297251A Method and apparatus for pixel clipping source and destination windows in a graphics system Physics 7 Expired
US6067090A Data skew management of multiple 3-D graphic operand requests Physics 7 Expired
US7975272B2 Thread queuing method and apparatus Physics 4 Active
US7904701B2 Activating a design test mode in a graphics card having multiple execution units to bypass a host cache and transfer test instructions directly to an instruction cache Physics 1 Active
US8544019B2 Thread queueing method and apparatus Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.