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Michael A. Alford — 5 Patents

AMD: 4 patents #2,971 of 9,280Top 35%
Eagle Rock, NC: #3 of 8 inventorsTop 40%
North Carolina: #10,126 of 45,564 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Michael A. Alford has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2025. Michael A. Alford ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Michael A. Alford in Eagle Rock, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents19982004: 1 patents20042025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12358261 System and method of preventing the formation of cracks in a concrete or asphalt surface 2025-07-15
RE38610 Host CPU independent video processing unit Sanford S. Lum, Keping Chen, Samuel Wong, Dwayne R. Bennett 2004-10-05
5796960 Multi-media computer architecture Robert P. Bicevskis, Adrian Hartog, Gordon Caruk 1998-08-18
5793445 Host CPU independent video processing unit Sanford S. Lum, Keping Chen, Samuel Wong, Dwayne R. Bennett 1998-08-11
5696912 Multi-media computer architecture Robert P. Bicevskis, Adrian Hartog, Gordon Caruk 1997-12-09