Patrick Law
76Patents
19h-index
108Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 4, 1990 → Nov 1, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7034828B1 | Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system | Physics | 155 | Expired |
| US5867153A | Method and system for automatically harmonizing access to a software application program via different access devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 133 | Expired |
| US6664958B1 | Z-texturing | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US7176919B2 | Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system | Physics | 114 | Expired |
| US6580430B1 | Method and apparatus for providing improved fog effects in a graphics system | Physics | 103 | Expired |
| US6133901A | Method and system for width independent antialiasing | Physics | 82 | Expired |
| US5638533A | Method and apparatus for providing data to a parallel processing array | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US6332131A | Method and system for automatically harmonizing access to a software application program via different access devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 50 | Expired |
| US8548909B1 | Method and system for building an internet portal | Physics | 49 | Active |
| US7996670B1 | Classification engine in a cryptography acceleration chip | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| USD453766S1 | Icon for a personal computer | General | 46 | Expired |
| US8924752B1 | Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 36 | Active |
| US7600131B1 | Distributed processing in a cryptography acceleration chip | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US9390461B1 | Graphics hardware mode controls | Physics | 26 | Active |
| US11009938B1 | Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 26 | Active |
| US7177421B2 | Authentication engine architecture and method | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US8533403B1 | Arbitration unit for memory system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Active |
| US7061502B1 | Method and apparatus for providing logical combination of N alpha operations within a graphics system | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5671020A | Method and apparatus for improved video filter processing using efficient pixel register and data organization | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US7349028B2 | Method and system for motion adaptive deinterlacer with integrated directional filter | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US9250665B2 | GPU with dynamic performance adjustment | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Active |
| US7412096B2 | Method and system for interpolator direction selection during edge detection | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US7057664B2 | Method and system for converting interlaced formatted video to progressive scan video using a color edge detection scheme | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US6091425A | Constant multisample image coverage mask | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7062657B2 | Methods and apparatus for hardware normalization and denormalization | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.