Kevin Rushforth
15Patents
12h-index
24Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 16, 1987 → May 26, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4928247A | Method and apparatus for the continuous and asynchronous traversal and processing of graphics data structures | Physics | 104 | Expired |
| US4873515A | Computer graphics pixel processing system | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US6570564B1 | Method and apparatus for rapid processing of scene-based programs | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US5097411A | Graphics workstation for creating graphics data structure which are stored retrieved and displayed by a graphics subsystem for competing programs | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6765571B2 | Using a master controller to manage threads and resources for scene-based rendering | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US5982375A | Floating point processor for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator which includes single-pass stereo capability | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US5251322A | Method of operating a computer graphics system including asynchronously traversing its nodes | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US7061486B2 | Using messaging to manage scene-based rendering | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5914724A | Lighting unit for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator with improved handling of incoming color values | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7170511B2 | Creating a parallel structure for scene-based rendering | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US7800614B2 | Efficient communication in a client-server scene graph system | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US6734852B2 | Using rendering molecules to manage scene-based rendering | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7184038B2 | Using render bin parallelism for rendering scene graph based graphics data | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7408549B1 | Method for hardware sorted fragment composition | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US9142044B2 | Apparatus, systems and methods for layout of scene graphs using node bounding areas | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.