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William A. Hughes — 61 Patents

AMD: 52 patents #132 of 9,280Top 2%
Globalfoundries: 6 patents #578 of 4,424Top 15%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
San Jose, CA: #684 of 32,062 inventorsTop 3%
California: #5,709 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
William A. Hughes has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in November 2025. William A. Hughes ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list William A. Hughes in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2006.peak 91998: 1 patents19982001: 1 patents2002: 8 patents20022003: 4 patents2004: 3 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 9 patents20062007: 8 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 4 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468874 Method and system for using deep learning to improve design verification by optimizing code coverage, functional coverage, and bug detection Saradha Srinivasan, Rohit Uday Suvarna 2025-11-11
9355034 Removal and optimization of coherence acknowledgement responses in an interconnect Kevin M. Lepak 2016-05-31
8996816 Method and apparatus for selectively bypassing a cache for trace collection in a processor Greggory D. Donley, Benjamin Tsien, Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Patrick Conway 2015-03-31 $1,927,000
8954635 Buffer management using freelist buffers Chengping Yang, Michael K. Fertig 2015-02-10 $2,183,000
8787368 Crossbar switch with primary and secondary pickers Chenping Yang, Michael K. Fertig 2014-07-22 $2,511,000
8756442 System for processor power limit management Samuel D. Naffziger, John P. Petry, Kiran Bondalapati 2014-06-17 $6,338,000
8732410 Method and apparatus for accelerated shared data migration Kevin M. Lepak, Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Benjamin Tsien, Greggory D. Donley 2014-05-20 $2,934,000
8606999 Cache partitioning Greggory D. Donley, Narsing Vijayrao 2013-12-10 $2,962,000
8595563 Method and circuitry for debugging a power-gated circuit Benjamin Tsien, Kiran Bondalapati, Hao Huang, Eric M. Rentschler, Jeremy Schreiber +1 more 2013-11-26 $3,520,000
RE44487 Command packet packing to mitigate CRC overhead Chen-Ping Yang, Greggory D. Donley, Michael K. Fertig 2013-09-10
8504854 Managing multiple operating points for stable virtual frequencies Samuel D. Naffziger, John P. Petry 2013-08-06 $2,454,000
8195887 Processor power management and method Kiran Bondalapati, Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Kevin M. Lepak, Benjamin T. Sander 2012-06-05 $2,975,000
7996653 Shared resources in a chip multiprocessor Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Kiran Bondalapati, Philip E. Madrid, Stephen C. Ennis 2011-08-09 $3,614,000
7882327 Communicating between partitions in a statically partitioned multiprocessing system Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Patrick Conway, Jeffrey Dwork 2011-02-01 $4,279,000
7881303 Command packet packing to mitigate CRC overhead Chen-Ping Yang, Greggory D. Donley, Michael K. Fertig 2011-02-01 $4,279,000
7877558 Memory controller prioritization scheme Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Philip E. Madrid, Roger D. Isaac 2011-01-25 $8,589,000
7844758 Dynamic resource allocation scheme for efficient use of a queue 2010-11-30 $11,033,000
7840780 Shared resources in a chip multiprocessor Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Kiran Bondalapati, Philip E. Madrid, Stephen C. Ennis 2010-11-23 $5,148,000
7840873 Partial CRC insertion in data packets for early forwarding Chen-Ping Yang, Greggory D. Donley, Michael K. Fertig 2010-11-23 $5,148,000
7707341 Virtualizing an interrupt controller Alexander Klaiber 2010-04-27 $10,775,000
7603551 Initialization of a computer system including a secure execution mode-capable processor Kevin J. McGrath, Geoffrey S. Strongin, David S. Christie, Dale E. Gulick 2009-10-13 $8,603,000
7603550 Computer system including a secure execution mode-capable CPU and a security services processor connected via a secure communication path Kevin J. McGrath, Geoffrey S. Strongin, Dale E. Gulick, David S. Christie 2009-10-13 $8,603,000
7480784 Ensuring deadlock free operation for peer to peer traffic in an input/output memory management unit (IOMMU) Mark Hummel, Michael Haertel, Andrew W. Lueck, Mitchell Alsup, Geoffrey S. Strongin 2009-01-20 $22,010,000
7383423 Shared resources in a chip multiprocessor Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Kiran Bondalapati, Philip E. Madrid, Stephen C. Ennis 2008-06-03 $5,507,000
7328371 Core redundancy in a chip multiprocessor for highly reliable systems Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, Philip E. Madrid, Scott White, Ajay Naini 2008-02-05 $6,320,000