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2021
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NVIDIA
›
Stephan Diestelhorst
SD
Stephan Diestelhorst
— 5 Patents in 2021
NVIDIA
:
4
patents
#78
of
1,237
Top 7%
University of Michigan
:
1
patents
#76
of
470
Top 20%
AMD
:
1
patents
#542
of
890
Top 65%
Overall
(2021):
#27,457
of
548,734
Top 6%
5
Patents 2021
Issued Patents
2021
Showing
1–5
of
5
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
11137919
Initialisation of a storage device
Wei Wang
,
Wendy Arnott Elsasser
2021-10-05
10956163
Processor support for hardware transactional memory
Jaewoong Chung
,
David S. Christie
,
Michael P. Hohmuth
,
Martin T. Pohlack
,
Luke Yen
2021-03-23
$85,424,000
10956166
Instruction ordering
Vaibhav Gogte
,
Wei Wang
,
Peter M. Chen
,
Satish Narayanasamy
,
Thomas Friedrich Wenisch
2021-03-23
10929308
Performing maintenance operations
Andreas Lars Sandberg
,
Nikos NIKOLERIS
,
Prakash S. Ramrakhyani
2021-02-23
10908944
Apparatus with shared transactional processing resource, and data processing method
Matthew James Horsnell
,
Guy Larri
2021-02-02
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