Inventor · Boxborough, MA, US

Mark Fowler

41Patents
10h-index
57Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 22, 1992 → Jan 2, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6052129A Method and apparatus for deferred clipping of polygons Physics 74 Expired
US6339428B1 Method and apparatus for compressed texture caching in a video graphics system Physics 60 Expired
US6483505B1 Method and apparatus for multipass pixel processing Physics 42 Expired
US6177944A Two phase rendering for computer graphics Physics 36 Expired
US7126600B1 Method and apparatus for high speed block mode triangle rendering Physics 33 Expired
US6700583B2 Configurable buffer for multipass applications Physics 31 Expired
US6720964B1 Method and apparatus for processing portions of primitives that are being rendered Physics 20 Expired
US6456291B1 Method and apparatus for multi-pass texture mapping Physics 17 Expired
US10403333B2 Memory controller with flexible address decoding Physics 12 Active
US5422991A Parallel vector generator and triangle generator incorporating same Physics 11 Expired
US8195882B2 Shader complex with distributed level one cache system and centralized level two cache Physics 8 Active
US6445392B1 Method and apparatus for simplified anti-aliasing in a video graphics system Physics 5 Expired
US8963931B2 Tiling compaction in multi-processor systems Physics 4 Active
US9996478B1 No allocate cache policy Physics 2 Active
US7414635B1 Optimized primitive filler Physics 2 Expired
US10725822B2 VMID as a GPU task container for virtualization Physics 2 Active
US8935475B2 Cache management for memory operations Physics 1 Active
US10991146B2 Residency map descriptors Physics 1 Active
US10540802B1 Residency map descriptors Physics 1 Active
US10152434B2 Efficient arbitration for memory accesses Physics 1 Active
US11467870B2 VMID as a GPU task container for virtualization Physics 1 Active
US10169906B2 Hybrid render with deferred primitive batch binning Physics 1 Active
US11880926B2 Hybrid render with deferred primitive batch binning Physics 0 Active
US11521342B2 Residency map descriptors Physics 0 Active
US11335052B2 Hybrid render with deferred primitive batch binning Physics 0 Active

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