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William L. Bircher — 14 Patents

AMD: 12 patents #1,048 of 9,280Top 15%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
Austin, TX: #2,366 of 18,064 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #10,699 of 125,132 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
William L. Bircher has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in April 2018. William L. Bircher ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list William L. Bircher in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9946319 Setting power-state limits based on performance coupling and thermal coupling between entities in a computing device Indrani Paul, Manish Arora, Srilatha Manne 2018-04-17 $7,065,000
9904623 Early cache prefetching in preparation for exit from idle mode Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Aniruddha Dasgupta, Dongyuan Zhan 2018-02-27 $9,035,000
9886326 Thermally-aware process scheduling Indrani Paul, Manish Arora 2018-02-06 $24,528,000
9851777 Power gating based on cache dirtiness Manish Arora, Indrani Paul, Yasuko Eckert, Nuwan Jayasena, Srilatha Manne +1 more 2017-12-26 $7,266,000
9760145 Saving the architectural state of a computing device using sectors Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan 2017-09-12 $7,865,000
9720487 Predicting power management state duration on a per-process basis and modifying cache size based on the predicted duration Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Manish Arora, Michael Schulte, Nuwan Jayasena 2017-08-01 $13,181,000
9442557 Using a linear prediction to configure an idle state of an entity in a computing device Manish Arora, Nuwan Jayasena, Yasuko Eckert, Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Michael Schulte +1 more 2016-09-13 $3,651,000
9317096 Performance aware idle power management Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Brian E. Waldecker 2016-04-19 $757,000
9110671 Idle phase exit prediction Yasuko Eckert, Srilatha Manne, Mahdu S. S. Govindan, Michael Schulte, Manish Arora 2015-08-18 $1,947,000
9075609 Power controller, processor and method of power management Alexander J. Branover 2015-07-07 $909,000
8959372 Dynamic performance control of processing nodes Alexander J. Branover, Maurice B. Steinman 2015-02-17 $2,156,000
8484498 Method and apparatus for demand-based control of processing node performance Alexander J. Branover, Maurice B. Steinman 2013-07-09 $5,244,000
7873754 Structure for option ROM characterization Shiva R. Dasari, Wingcheung Tam 2011-01-18 $5,934,000
7526578 Option ROM characterization Shiva R. Dasari, Wingcheung Tam 2009-04-28 $8,592,000