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Shane Southard — 7 Patents

AMD: 7 patents #1,738 of 9,280Top 20%
Austin, TX: #4,441 of 18,064 inventorsTop 25%
Texas: #21,608 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Shane Southard has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in March 2001. Shane Southard ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Shane Southard in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2001Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2000.peak 31998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents19992000: 3 patents20002001: 1 patents2001

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6202142 Microcode scan unit for scanning microcode instructions using predecode data Rammohan Narayan, Thang M. Tran 2001-03-13 $6,055,000
6148393 Apparatus for generating a valid mask Thang M. Tran, Rammohan Narayan 2000-11-14 $4,365,000
6134650 Apparatus and method for predicting a first scanned instruction as microcode instruction prior to scanning predecode data Gerald D. Zuraski, Jr., Mauricio Calle 2000-10-17 $7,276,000
6061775 Apparatus and method for predicting a first microcode instruction of a cache line and using predecode instruction data to identify instruction boundaries and types Thang M. Tran, Mauricio Calle 2000-05-09 $8,913,000
5968163 Microcode scan unit for scanning microcode instructions using predecode data Rammohan Narayan, Thang M. Tran 1999-10-19 $1,257,000
5890006 Apparatus for extracting instruction specific bytes from an instruction Thang M. Tran, Mauricio Calle 1999-03-30 $2,138,000
5850532 Invalid instruction scan unit for detecting invalid predecode data corresponding to instructions being fetched Rammohan Narayan, Thang M. Tran 1998-12-15 $6,006,000