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James K. Pickett — 52 Patents

AMD: 46 patents #162 of 9,280Top 2%
DEDelco Electronics: 4 patents #87 of 908Top 10%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Austin, TX: #431 of 18,064 inventorsTop 3%
Texas: #1,624 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
James K. Pickett has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in December 2018. James K. Pickett ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list James K. Pickett in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 1999.peak 91988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941997: 1 patents1998: 7 patents19981999: 9 patents2000: 9 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 5 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 3 patents2010: 1 patents20102018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10163508 Supporting multiple memory types in a memory slot Woojong Han, Mohamed Arafa, Brian S. Morris, Mani N. Prakash, John K. Grooms +3 more 2018-12-25
7836259 Prefetch unit for use with a cache memory subsystem of a cache memory hierarchy Michael Filippo, Roger D. Isaac 2010-11-16 $9,175,000
7415597 Processor with dependence mechanism to predict whether a load is dependent on older store Michael Filippo 2008-08-19 $10,246,000
7363470 System and method to prevent in-flight instances of operations from disrupting operation replay within a data-speculative microprocessor Michael Filippo, Benjamin T. Sander 2008-04-22 $9,226,000
7321964 Store-to-load forwarding buffer using indexed lookup Michael Filippo 2008-01-22 $21,379,000
7266673 Speculation pointers to identify data-speculative operations in microprocessor Michael Filippo, Benjamin T. Sander 2007-09-04 $16,316,000
7251710 Cache memory subsystem including a fixed latency R/W pipeline Roger D. Isaac, Mitchell Alsup, Rama S. Gopal, Michael Filippo 2007-07-31 $9,995,000
7222226 System and method for modifying a load operation to include a register-to-register move operation in order to forward speculative load results to a dependent operation Kevin M. Lepak, Benjamin T. Sander 2007-05-22 $14,345,000
7165167 Load store unit with replay mechanism Michael Filippo, Benjamin T. Sander, Rama S. Gopal 2007-01-16 $16,173,000
7133969 System and method for handling exceptional instructions in a trace cache based processor Mitchell Alsup, Gregory W. Smaus, Brian D. McMinn, Michael Filippo, Benjamin T. Sander 2006-11-07 $14,140,000
7089400 Data speculation based on stack-relative addressing patterns Benjamin T. Sander, Kevin M. Lepak 2006-08-08 $20,246,000
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 Brian D. McMinn, Mitchell Alsup 2006-05-09 $10,311,000
7028166 System and method for linking speculative results of load operations to register values 2006-04-11 $9,016,000
7024537 Data speculation based on addressing patterns identifying dual-purpose register Benjamin T. Sander, Kevin M. Lepak 2006-04-04 $14,413,000
6957319 Integrated circuit with multiple microcode ROMs Brian D. McMinn 2005-10-18 $5,936,000
6957322 Efficient microcode entry access from sequentially addressed portion via non-sequentially addressed portion 2005-10-18 $5,936,000
6944744 Apparatus and method for independently schedulable functional units with issue lock mechanism in a processor Ashraf Ahmed, Michael Filippo 2005-09-13 $9,865,000
6845442 System and method of using speculative operand sources in order to speculatively bypass load-store operations Kevin M. Lepak, Benjamin T. Sander 2005-01-18 $6,792,000
6826704 Microprocessor employing a performance throttling mechanism for power management 2004-11-30 $7,368,000
6438664 Microcode patch device and method for patching microcode using match registers and patch routines Kevin J. McGrath 2002-08-20 $3,107,000
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, Brian D. McMinn 2001-10-02 $2,425,000
6202139 Pipelined data cache with multiple ports and processor with load/store unit selecting only load or store operations for concurrent processing David B. Witt 2001-03-13 $6,055,000
6175908 Variable byte-length instructions using state of function bit of second byte of plurality of instructions bytes as indicative of whether first byte is a prefix byte 2001-01-16 $7,676,000
6151662 Data transaction typing for improved caching and prefetching characteristics David S. Christie, Brian D. McMinn, Stephan G. Meier 2000-11-21 $5,742,000
6141745 Functional bit identifying a prefix byte via a particular state regardless of type of instruction 2000-10-31 $4,395,000