Inventor · Mercer Island, WA, US

Nicholas Patrick Wilt

69Patents
16h-index
42Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 18, 2000 → Oct 8, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6911984B2 Desktop compositor using copy-on-write semantics Physics 107 Expired
US8645634B1 Zero-copy data sharing by cooperating asymmetric coprocessors Physics 94 Active
US7234144B2 Methods and system for managing computational resources of a coprocessor in a computing system Physics 70 Expired
US7010458B2 System and methods for providing histogram computation in a high precision rasterization data pipeline Physics 59 Expired
US7203310B2 Methods and systems for cryptographically protecting secure content Physics 56 Expired
US9547535B1 Method and system for providing shared memory access to graphics processing unit processes Physics 56 Active
US6826311B2 Hough transform supporting methods and arrangements Physics 50 Expired
US7600222B2 Systems and methods for managing drivers in a computing system Physics 33 Expired
US7519781B1 Physically-based page characterization data Physics 33 Active
US7038690B2 Methods and systems for displaying animated graphics on a computing device Physics 31 Expired
US9317452B1 Selective restrictions to memory mapped registers using an emulator Physics 25 Active
US6993156B1 System and method for statistically comparing and matching plural sets of digital data Physics 25 Expired
US7631309B2 Methods and system for managing computational resources of a coprocessor in a computing system Physics 20 Active
US6919900B2 Methods and systems for preparing graphics for display on a computing device Physics 20 Expired
US7489318B1 Apparatus and method for managing memory to generate a texture from a render target when forming graphical images Physics 19 Expired
US9836354B1 Automated error detection and recovery for GPU computations in a service environment Physics 16 Active
US7284135B2 Methods and systems for maintaining an encrypted video memory subsystem Electricity 15 Expired
US7649943B2 Interface and related methods facilitating motion compensation in media processing Electricity 14 Expired
US7380130B2 Methods and systems for authentication of components in a graphics system Physics 13 Expired
US8151095B1 System and method for context migration across CPU threads Physics 13 Active
US7262776B1 Incremental updating of animated displays using copy-on-write semantics Physics 13 Expired
US7330864B2 System and method for using native floating point microprocessor instructions to manipulate 16-bit floating point data representations Physics 10 Expired
US10423463B1 Computational task offloading for virtualized graphics Physics 8 Active
US7315308B2 Methods and system for merging graphics for display on a computing device Physics 7 Expired
US8395631B1 Method and system for sharing memory between multiple graphics processing units in a computer system Physics 7 Active

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