Inventor · Round Rock, TX, US

Cass W. Everitt

48Patents
12h-index
54Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 31, 2001 → Sep 20, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7170513B1 System and method for display list occlusion branching Physics 51 Expired
US7145565B2 Depth bounds testing Physics 49 Expired
US6744433B1 System and method for using and collecting information from a plurality of depth layers Physics 45 Expired
US6989840B1 Order-independent transparency rendering system and method Physics 43 Expired
US6704025B1 System and method for dual-depth shadow-mapping Physics 37 Expired
US7446780B1 Temporal antialiasing in a multisampling graphics pipeline Physics 28 Expired
US8171461B1 Primitive program compilation for flat attributes with provoking vertex independence Physics 23 Active
US7463259B1 Subshader mechanism for programming language Physics 23 Expired
US8094158B1 Using programmable constant buffers for multi-threaded processing Physics 15 Active
US7626588B1 Prescient cache management Physics 14 Active
US9013498B1 Determining a working set of texture maps Physics 13 Active
US7528843B1 Dynamic texture fetch cancellation Physics 13 Active
US7519797B1 Hierarchical multi-precision pipeline counters Physics 12 Active
US7999820B1 Methods and systems for reusing memory addresses in a graphics system Physics 12 Active
US7868891B2 Load balancing Physics 11 Expired
US8006236B1 System and method for compiling high-level primitive programs into primitive program micro-code Physics 11 Active
US7355602B1 Surrogate stencil buffer clearing Physics 10 Expired
US8605086B2 Hybrid multisample/supersample antialiasing Physics 8 Active
US8010945B1 Vector data types with swizzling and write masking for C++ Physics 8 Active
US8212825B1 System and method for geometry shading Physics 8 Active
US7877565B1 Constant versioning for multi-threaded processing Physics 7 Active
US7886116B1 Bandwidth compression for shader engine store operations Physics 7 Active
US8441487B1 Bandwidth compression for shader engine store operations Physics 7 Active
US7944452B1 Methods and systems for reusing memory addresses in a graphics system Physics 7 Active
US9183662B1 System and method for enabling scene program functionality Physics 6 Active

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