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Nils Graef — 33 Patents

ASAgere Systems: 24 patents #24 of 1,849Top 2%
APAvago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.: 4 patents #274 of 2,004Top 15%
LSLsi: 3 patents #1,291 of 3,238Top 40%
ACApplied Micro Circuits: 1 patents #192 of 311Top 65%
Milpitas, CA: #127 of 3,192 inventorsTop 4%
California: #15,252 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Nils Graef has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Agere Systems. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in September 2017. Nils Graef ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Nils Graef in Milpitas, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2012.peak 92009: 2 patents20092010: 6 patents20102011: 7 patents20112012: 9 patents20122013: 4 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9753877 Memory read-channel with signal processing on general purpose processor Erich F. Haratsch 2017-09-05 $57,045,000
9544090 Hard input low density parity check decoder 2017-01-10 $25,915,000
9356623 LDPC decoder variable node units having fewer adder stages 2016-05-31 $112,809,000
9069687 Memory read-channel with selective transmission of error correction data Nirav Dave, Johnson Yen 2015-06-30 $55,977,000
8797795 Methods and apparatus for intercell interference mitigation using modulation coding Erich F. Haratsch, Milos Ivkovic, Victor Krachkovsky, Andrei Vityaev, Johnson Yen 2014-08-05
8578256 Low-latency decoder 2013-11-05
8503128 Systems and methods for variable compensated fly height measurement 2013-08-06
8484535 Error-floor mitigation of codes using write verification Kiran Gunnam 2013-07-09
8375281 Method and apparatus for storing survivor paths in a viterbi detector using systematic pointer exchange 2013-02-12
8248170 Stabilized digital quadrature oscillator Dariush Dabiri, Dongwoon Bai, Wenwei Pan 2012-08-21
8250386 Turning off buffer when a digital back end operates at a same data rate as the analog front end 2012-08-21
8245098 Selectively strengthening and weakening check-node messages in error-correction decoders Yang Han, Kiran Gunnam, Shaohua Yang, Hao Zhong, Yuan Xing Lee 2012-08-14
8245120 Power reduced queue based data detection and decoding systems and methods for using such Changyou Xu, Shaohua Yang, Hao Zhong, Ching-Fu Wu 2012-08-14
8196002 Systems and methods for joint LDPC encoding and decoding 2012-06-05
8161345 LDPC decoders using fixed and adjustable permutators 2012-04-17
8161348 Systems and methods for low cost LDPC decoding 2012-04-17
8140947 Method and apparatus for storing survivor paths in a Viterbi detector using systematic pointer exchange 2012-03-20
8098451 Systems and methods for variable fly height measurement 2012-01-17
8077812 Reduced-complexity multiple-input, multiple-output detection Joachim S. Hammerschmdit 2011-12-13
8046669 Method and apparatus for evaluating performance of a read channel Zachary Keirn 2011-10-25
8032818 Method and apparatus for storing survivor paths in a Viterbi detector using input-dependent pointer exchange 2011-10-04
8014196 Reduced-power programming of multi-level cell (MLC) memory 2011-09-06
7971125 Systems and methods for prioritizing error correction data Erich F. Haratsch 2011-06-28
7941732 Method and apparatus for evaluating performance of a read channel Zachary Keirn 2011-05-10
7876847 Global minimum-based MLD demapping for soft-output MIMO detection Joachim S. Hammerschmidt 2011-01-25