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Ming L. So — 10 Patents

AMD: 14 patents #829 of 9,280Top 9%
Danville, CA: #218 of 1,210 inventorsTop 20%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Ming L. So has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in September 2022. Ming L. So ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Ming L. So in Danville, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11455025 Power state transitions Xiaojie He, Alexander J. Branover, Mihir Shaileshbhai Doctor, Evgeny Mintz, Fei Fei +2 more 2022-09-27 $216,639,000
10775874 Multi-tiered low power states Xiaojie He, Alexander J. Branover, Mihir Shaileshbhai Doctor, Evgeny Mintz, Fei Fei +2 more 2020-09-15 $70,689,000
10712800 Aligning active and idle phases in a mixed workload computing platform Benjamin Tsien, Alexander J. Branover, Philip Ng, Xiao Gang Zheng, Felix Yat-Sum Ho +4 more 2020-07-14 $34,730,000
9858235 Emulated legacy bus operation over a bit-serial bus Scott E. Matlock 2018-01-02 $15,669,000
9423847 Method and apparatus for transitioning a system to an active disconnect state Alexander J. Branover, Krishna Sai Bernucho, Maurice B. Steinman, Mom-Eng Ng, Xiaogang Zheng +8 more 2016-08-23 $3,675,000
9046915 Circuit and method for initializing a computer system Xiao Gang Zheng 2015-06-02 $2,320,000
8570067 Method and apparatus for controlling a communication signal by monitoring one or more voltage sources Oleg Drapkin, Grigori Temkine, Marcus Ng, Kevin Liang, Arvind Bomdica +2 more 2013-10-29 $3,801,000
8566628 North-bridge to south-bridge protocol for placing processor in low power state Alexander J. Branover, Maurice B. Steinman, Xiao Gang Zheng 2013-10-22 $1,818,000
8433936 USB power conservation method and apparatus Kenny Xu 2013-04-30 $3,960,000
7522010 Ultra-low power crystal oscillator Kevin Liang, Arvind Bomdica, Min Xu 2009-04-21 $10,235,000