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Rodney Wayne Smith — 3 Patents in 2016

Qualcomm: 3 patents #652 of 3,136Top 25%
Raleigh, NC: #115 of 899 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #592 of 5,540 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (2016): #57,237 of 481,213Top 15%
3 Patents 2016

Issued Patents 2016

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9477476 Fusing immediate value, write-based instructions in instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media Melinda J. Brown, Michael William Morrow, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Brian Michael Stempel, Michael Scott McIlvaine +2 more 2016-10-25 $14,056,000
9471325 Method and apparatus for selective renaming in a microprocessor Anil Krishna, Sandeep Suresh Navada, Niket K. Choudhary, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Thomas Andrew Sartorius +1 more 2016-10-18 $12,379,000
9411590 Method to improve speed of executing return branch instructions in a processor Jeffery M. Schottmiller, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Brian Michael Stempel, Melinda J. Brown, Daren Eugene Streett 2016-08-09 $11,703,000