Inventor · Folsom, CA, US

Michael Apodaca

106Patents
7h-index
118Co-inventors
73Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 30, 2011 → Nov 22, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US10846814B2 Patch processing mechanism Electricity 16 Active
US10893299B2 Surface normal vector processing mechanism Physics 15 Active
US10911799B2 Video refinement mechanism Physics 13 Active
US10401954B2 Sensory enhanced augmented reality and virtual reality device Physics 10 Active
US10699475B1 Multi-pass apparatus and method for early termination of graphics shading Physics 9 Active
US10013734B1 Programmable controller and command cache for graphics processors Physics 8 Active
US11178373B2 Adaptive resolution of point cloud and viewpoint prediction for video streaming in computing environments Physics 7 Active
US10430147B2 Collaborative multi-user virtual reality Electricity 5 Active
US10983594B2 Sensory enhanced augmented reality and virtual reality device Physics 5 Active
US11663746B2 Systolic arithmetic on sparse data Physics 5 Active
US10109078B1 Controlling coarse pixel size from a stencil buffer Physics 4 Active
US11037269B1 High-speed resume for GPU applications Physics 4 Active
US11284118B2 Surface normal vector processing mechanism Physics 4 Active
US10643374B2 Positional only shading pipeline (POSH) geometry data processing with coarse Z buffer Physics 3 Active
US10558496B2 Techniques for accessing a graphical processing unit memory by an application Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US10861126B1 Asynchronous execution mechanism Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US10997772B1 Dynamic constant update mechanism Physics 2 Active
US10733690B2 GPU mixed primitive topology type processing Physics 2 Active
US10068307B2 Command processing for graphics tile-based rendering Physics 2 Active
US10930060B2 Conditional shader for graphics Physics 2 Active
US10242486B2 Augmented reality and virtual reality feedback enhancement system, apparatus and method Electricity 2 Active
US11829525B2 Sensory enhanced augmented reality and virtual reality device Physics 2 Active
US11062506B2 Tile-based immediate mode rendering with early hierarchical-z Physics 2 Active
US10796397B2 Facilitating dynamic runtime transformation of graphics processing commands for improved graphics performance at computing devices Physics 2 Active
US11443406B2 High-speed resume for GPU applications Physics 2 Active

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