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James R. MacDonald — 44 Patents

AMD: 35 patents #261 of 9,280Top 3%
SMStandard Microsystems: 5 patents #24 of 184Top 15%
NCNalco Chemical: 2 patents #280 of 636Top 45%
ASAdvanced Numicro Systems: 1 patents #2 of 17Top 15%
Chicago, IL: #143 of 13,327 inventorsTop 2%
Illinois: #1,048 of 84,256 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
James R. MacDonald has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in October 2013. James R. MacDonald ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list James R. MacDonald in Chicago, IL, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8572420 Power managed USB for computing applications using a controller Drew J. Dutton, Henry Wurzburg 2013-10-29
7685450 Power management of computer peripheral devices which determines non-usage of a device through usage detection of other devices Drew J. Dutton, Stephen T. Cox 2010-03-23 $4,304,000
7310498 Communication protocol for personal computer system human interface devices over a low bandwidth, bi-directional radio frequency link Trenton Henry, Klaas Wortel, Guy Stewart, Henry Wurzburg 2007-12-18 $6,877,000
7222252 Power management of computer peripheral devices which determines non-usage of a device through usage detection of other devices Drew J. Dutton, Stephen T. Cox 2007-05-22 $6,026,000
6825786 Associative noise attenuation Drew J. Dutton, Stephen T. Cox 2004-11-30 $5,419,000
6550059 Method for generating optimized vector instructions from high level programming languages Gwangwoo Choe, Paul B. Mann 2003-04-15 $2,272,000
6484193 Fully pipelined parallel multiplier with a fast clock cycle Gwangwoo Choe 2002-11-19 $1,532,000
6434582 Cosine algorithm for relatively small angles Gwangwoo Choe 2002-08-13 $2,174,000
6385632 Fast CORDIC algorithm with sine governed termination Gwangwoo Choe 2002-05-07 $2,110,000
6295574 Real time interrupt handling for superscalar processors 2001-09-25 $2,966,000
6044430 Real time interrupt handling for superscalar processors 2000-03-28 $9,076,000
5946497 System and method for providing microprocessor serialization using programmable fuses Sherman Lee, Michael T. Wisor 1999-08-31 $2,486,000
5933620 Method and apparatus for serializing microprocessor identification numbers Sherman Lee, Michael T. Wisor 1999-08-03 $2,588,000
5913224 Programmable cache including a non-lockable data way and a lockable data way configured to lock real-time data 1999-06-15 $3,878,000
5905898 Apparatus and method for storing interrupt source information in an interrupt controller based upon interrupt priority Qadeer A. Qureshi, Dan S. Mudgett, Douglas D. Gephardt, Rodney Schmidt 1999-05-18 $2,666,000
5894577 Interrupt controller with external in-service indication for power management within a computer system Douglas D. Gephardt, Dan S. Mudgett 1999-04-13 $3,560,000
5799203 System for receiving peripheral device capability information and selectively disabling corresponding processing unit function when the device failing to support such function Sherman Lee, Michael T. Wisor 1998-08-25 $7,678,000
5790663 Method and apparatus for software access to a microprocessor serial number Sherman Lee, Michael T. Wisor 1998-08-04 $1,601,000
5790783 Method and apparatus for upgrading the software lock of microprocessor Sherman Lee, Michael T. Wisor 1998-08-04 $1,601,000
5784627 Integrated timer for power management and watchdog functions 1998-07-21 $3,323,000
5774544 Method an apparatus for encrypting and decrypting microprocessor serial numbers Sherman Lee, Michael T. Wisor 1998-06-30 $4,223,000
5768584 ROM chip enable encoding method and computer system employing the same Douglas D. Gephardt 1998-06-16
5765003 Interrupt controller optimized for power management in a computer system or subsystem Douglas D. Gephardt, Dan S. Mudgett 1998-06-09 $2,721,000
5696927 Memory paging system and method including compressed page mapping hierarchy Drew J. Dutton, Steve Cox 1997-12-09 $6,932,000
5640573 Power management message bus for integrated processor Douglas D. Gephardt 1997-06-17 $14,474,000