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Steven K. Knapp — 19 Patents

AMD: 13 patents #974 of 9,280Top 15%
COCornami: 3 patents #9 of 17Top 55%
TRTriscend: 1 patents #11 of 17Top 65%
Santa Clara, CA: #852 of 9,301 inventorsTop 10%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Steven K. Knapp has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in November 2025. Steven K. Knapp ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Steven K. Knapp in Santa Clara, CA, US.

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Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12461890 Reconfigurable processor circuit architecture Paul L. Master, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen +1 more 2025-11-04
11977509 Reconfigurable processor circuit architecture Paul L. Master, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen +1 more 2024-05-07
11907157 Reconfigurable processor circuit architecture Paul L. Master, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen +1 more 2024-02-20
11494331 Reconfigurable processor circuit architecture Paul L. Master, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen +1 more 2022-11-08
8863230 Methods of authenticating a programmable integrated circuit in combination with a non-volatile memory device James A. Walstrum, Jr., Shalin Umesh Sheth 2014-10-14 $20,640,000
7987358 Methods of authenticating a user design in a programmable integrated circuit James A. Walstrum, Jr., Shalin Umesh Sheth 2011-07-26 $42,929,000
7768293 Authentication for information provided to an integrated circuit 2010-08-03 $18,891,000
7535249 Authentication for information provided to an integrated circuit 2009-05-19 $2,833,000
7454556 Method to program non-JTAG attached devices or memories using a PLD and its associated JTAG interface 2008-11-18 $2,887,000
7358762 Parallel interface for configuring programmable devices James A. Walstrum, Jr., Wayne E. Wennekamp 2008-04-15 $13,122,000
7281082 Flexible scheme for configuring programmable semiconductor devices using or loading programs from SPI-based serial flash memories that support multiple SPI flash vendors and device families 2007-10-09 $3,929,000
7243227 Method and apparatus to copy protect software programs 2007-07-10 $7,405,000
6691266 Bus mastering debugging system for integrated circuits Steven Winegarden, Arye Ziklik 2004-02-10
5737234 Method of optimizing resource allocation starting from a high level block diagram Jorge P. Seidel 1998-04-07
5617573 State splitting for level reduction Alan Y. Huang, Sanjeev Kwatra 1997-04-01 $11,954,000
5574655 Method of allocating logic using general function components Jorge P. Seidel 1996-11-12 $24,566,000
5553001 Method for optimizing resource allocation starting from a high level Jorge P. Seidel 1996-09-03 $21,608,000
5499192 Method for generating logic modules from a high level block diagram Jorge P. Seidel, Steven Hennick Kelem 1996-03-12 $13,398,000
5422833 Method and system for propagating data type for circuit design from a high level block diagram Steven Hennick Kelem 1995-06-06 $20,835,000