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Brian D. McMinn — 37 Patents

AMD: 36 patents #253 of 9,280Top 3%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
Austin, TX: #751 of 18,064 inventorsTop 5%
Texas: #2,836 of 125,132 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Brian D. McMinn has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in August 2011. Brian D. McMinn ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Brian D. McMinn in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8010920 Constraint management and validation for template-based circuit design Richard L. Bartolotti, Thomas D. Burd, William McGee, Arun Chandra 2011-08-30 $4,140,000
7937569 System and method for scheduling operations using speculative data operands Benjamin T. Sander 2011-05-03 $12,826,000
7827355 Data processor having a cache with efficient storage of predecode information, cache, and method Karthikeyan Muthusamy 2010-11-02 $14,348,000
7315935 Apparatus and method for port arbitration in a register file on the basis of functional unit issue slots Mitchell Alsup, Benjamin T. Sander, David E. Kroesche 2008-01-01
7133969 System and method for handling exceptional instructions in a trace cache based processor Mitchell Alsup, Gregory W. Smaus, James K. Pickett, Michael Filippo, Benjamin T. Sander 2006-11-07 $14,140,000
7127573 Memory controller providing multiple power modes for accessing memory devices by reordering memory transactions Geoffrey S. Strongin, Dale E. Gulick 2006-10-24 $12,982,000
7080170 Circular buffer using age vectors Gerald D. Zuraski, Jr., Michael Kevin Ciraula 2006-07-18 $7,111,000
7069411 Mapper circuit with backup capability Mitchell Alsup 2006-06-27 $11,248,000
7043626 Retaining flag value associated with dead result data in freed rename physical register with an indicator to select set-aside register instead for renaming James K. Pickett, Mitchell Alsup 2006-05-09 $10,311,000
6957319 Integrated circuit with multiple microcode ROMs James K. Pickett 2005-10-18 $5,936,000
6873184 Circular buffer using grouping for find first function Michael Kevin Ciraula, Gerald D. Zuraski, Jr. 2005-03-29 $4,814,000
6782486 Apparatus for stopping and starting a clock in a clock forwarded I/O system depending on the presence of valid data in a receive buffer Paul C. Miranda 2004-08-24 $2,825,000
6760392 Method and apparatus to provide fixed latency early response in a system with multiple clock domains with fixable clock ratios Teik-Chung Tan 2004-07-06 $3,832,000
6711696 Method for transfering data between two different clock domains by calculating which pulses of the faster clock domain should be skipped substantially simultaneously with the transfer Michael Bates 2004-03-23 $3,151,000
6597620 Storage circuit with data retention during power down 2003-07-22 $3,195,000
6539470 Instruction decode unit producing instruction operand information in the order in which the operands are identified, and systems including same Eric W. Mahurin 2003-03-25 $2,887,000
6424688 Method to transfer data in a system with multiple clock domains using clock skipping techniques Teik-Chung Tan, Derrick R. Meyer 2002-07-23 $1,368,000
6298424 Computer system including priorities for memory operations and allowing a higher priority memory operation to interrupt a lower priority memory operation W. Kurt Lewchuk, James K. Pickett 2001-10-02 $2,425,000
6219760 Cache including a prefetch way for storing cache lines and configured to move a prefetched cache line to a non-prefetch way upon access to the prefetched cache line 2001-04-17 $5,863,000
6151662 Data transaction typing for improved caching and prefetching characteristics David S. Christie, Stephan G. Meier, James K. Pickett 2000-11-21 $5,742,000
6138213 Cache including a prefetch way for storing prefetch cache lines and configured to move a prefetched cache line to a non-prefetch way upon access to the prefetched cache line 2000-10-24 $7,838,000
6097403 Memory including logic for operating upon graphics primitives 2000-08-01 $5,860,000
6058461 Computer system including priorities for memory operations and allowing a higher priority memory operation to interrupt a lower priority memory operation W. Kurt Lewchuk, James K. Pickett 2000-05-02 $10,974,000
6032252 Apparatus and method for efficient loop control in a superscalar microprocessor Anthony M. Petro 2000-02-29 $3,732,000
5926646 Context-dependent memory-mapped registers for transparent expansion of a register file James K. Pickett, Rupaka Mahalingaiah 1999-07-20 $1,833,000