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Lee W. Howes — 16 Patents

AMD: 13 patents #987 of 9,280Top 15%
Qualcomm: 3 patents #4,553 of 12,104Top 40%
Santa Clara, CA: #1,055 of 9,301 inventorsTop 15%
California: #37,952 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Lee W. Howes has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in January 2022. Lee W. Howes ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Lee W. Howes in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11231962 Heterogeneous parallel primitives programming model Benedict R. Gaster 2022-01-25 $180,690,000
10467013 Method and system for yield operation supporting thread-like behavior Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Clair Houston 2019-11-05 $31,380,000
10296378 Efficient processor load balancing using predication Vinod Tipparaju, Thomas Scogland 2019-05-21 $28,367,000
10235220 Multithreaded computing Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Clair Houston, Michael Mantor 2019-03-19 $18,879,000
10146549 Method and system for yield operation supporting thread-like behavior Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Clair Houston 2018-12-04 $15,683,000
9830134 Generating object code from intermediate code that includes hierarchical sub-routine information 2017-11-28 $14,104,000
9811343 Method and system for yield operation supporting thread-like behavior Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Clair Houston 2017-11-07 $8,746,000
9779469 Register spill management for general purpose registers (GPRs) Maxim V. Kazakov 2017-10-03 $6,947,000
9720691 Speculative scalarization in vector processing 2017-08-01 $7,518,000
9697003 Method and system for yield operation supporting thread-like behavior Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Clair Houston 2017-07-04
9594595 Efficient processor load balancing using predication flags Vinod Tipparaju, Thomas Scogland 2017-03-14 $17,823,000
9424099 Method and system for synchronization of workitems with divergent control flow Michael Clair Houston, Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Mantor, Dominik Behr 2016-08-23 $3,675,000
9262139 Layered programming for heterogeneous devices Dongping Zhang 2016-02-16 $417,000
9244828 Allocating memory and using the allocated memory in a workgroup in a dispatched data parallel kernel Benedict R. Gaster 2016-01-26 $652,000
8966461 Vector width-aware synchronization-elision for vector processors Benedict R. Gaster, Mark Hummel 2015-02-24 $1,146,000
8607247 Method and system for workitem synchronization Benedict R. Gaster, Michael Clair Houston, Michael Mantor, Mark Leather, Norman Rubin +1 more 2013-12-10 $2,962,000