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Rita M. O'Brien — 15 Patents

AMD: 14 patents #868 of 9,280Top 10%
Motorola: 1 patents #10,386 of 14,142Top 75%
Austin, TX: #2,196 of 18,064 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #9,849 of 125,132 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Rita M. O'Brien has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in January 2001. Rita M. O'Brien ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Rita M. O'Brien in Austin, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6178475 Multimedia system employing timers to properly allocate bus access 2001-01-23 $6,489,000
6021498 Power management unit including a programmable index register for accessing configuration registers Michael T. Wisor 2000-02-01 $7,629,000
5796961 Heuristic bus access arbiter 1998-08-18 $2,496,000
5671424 Immediate system management interrupt source with associated reason register Michael T. Wisor 1997-09-23 $21,121,000
5664205 Power management control technique for timer tick activity within an interrupt driven computer system Michael T. Wisor 1997-09-02 $13,005,000
5628019 System and method for controlling a peripheral bus clock signal during a reduced power mode 1997-05-06 $12,071,000
5628020 System oscillator gating technique for power management within a computer system 1997-05-06 $12,071,000
5606713 System management interrupt source including a programmable counter and power management system employing the same Michael T. Wisor 1997-02-25 $14,795,000
5596756 Sub-bus activity detection technique for power management within a computer system 1997-01-21 $7,492,000
5535419 Sytem and method for merging disk change data from a floppy disk controller with data relating to an IDE drive controller 1996-07-09 $2,313,000
5511203 Power management system distinguishing between primary and secondary system activity Michael T. Wisor 1996-04-23 $11,849,000
5504910 Power management unit including software configurable state register and time-out counters for protecting against misbehaved software Michael T. Wisor 1996-04-02 $7,281,000
5495482 Packet transmission system and method utilizing both a data bus and dedicated control lines Richard E. White, Dale R. Buchholz, Thomas A. Freeburg, John M. Kaczmarczyk 1996-02-27 $14,209,000
5493684 Power management architecture including a power management messaging bus for conveying an encoded activity signal for optimal flexibility Douglas D. Gephardt, James R. MacDonald 1996-02-20 $26,127,000
5442794 Disable technique employed during low battery conditions within a portable computer system Michael T. Wisor 1995-08-15 $5,495,000