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Wei-Han Lien — 35 Patents

Apple: 25 patents #1,273 of 18,612Top 7%
AMD: 3 patents #3,413 of 9,280Top 40%
NMNetlogic Microsystems: 2 patents #83 of 186Top 45%
PSP.A. Semi: 2 patents #12 of 30Top 40%
RMRmi: 2 patents #7 of 42Top 20%
Saratoga, CA: #279 of 2,933 inventorsTop 10%
California: #14,008 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Wei-Han Lien has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Wei-Han Lien ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Wei-Han Lien in Saratoga, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12430137 Processor with opportunistic bypass of dispatch buffer and reservation station Divyansh Jagota, Manan Salvi, Vignyan Kothinti 2025-09-30
12236244 Multi-degree branch predictor Muawya M. Al-Otoom, Ian D. Kountanis, Niket K. Choudhary, Pruthivi Vuyyuru 2025-02-25
12067399 Conditional instructions prediction Ian D. Kountanis, Douglas C. Holman, Pruthivi Vuyyuru, Ethan Schuchman, Niket K. Choudhary +2 more 2024-08-20 $206,773,000
11829763 Early load execution via constant address and stride prediction Yuan C. Chou, Viney Gautam, Kulin N. Kothari, Mridul Agarwal 2023-11-28 $171,025,000
11809874 Conditional instructions distribution and execution on pipelines having different latencies for mispredictions Ethan Schuchman, Niket K. Choudhary, Kulin N. Kothari, Haoyan Jia, Ian D. Kountanis +2 more 2023-11-07 $200,618,000
11003233 Dynamic voltage and frequency management based on active processors Jong-Suk Lee, Daniel C. Murray 2021-05-11 $296,431,000
10303238 Dynamic voltage and frequency management based on active processors Jong-Suk Lee, Daniel C. Murray 2019-05-28 $54,822,000
9959120 Persistent relocatable reset vector for processor Josh P. de Cesare, Gerard R. Williams, III, Michael J. Smith 2018-05-01 $111,912,000
9703354 Dynamic voltage and frequency management based on active processors Jong-Suk Lee, Daniel C. Murray 2017-07-11 $63,067,000
9684516 Register renamer that handles multiple register sizes aliased to the same storage locations 2017-06-20 $70,324,000
9626185 IT instruction pre-decode Shyam Sundar, Ian D. Kountanis, Conrado Blasco-Allue, Gerard R. Williams, III, Ramesh Gunna 2017-04-18 $63,955,000
9541984 L2 flush and memory fabric teardown Shih-Chieh Wen, Jason M. Kassoff 2017-01-10 $61,338,000
9411360 Method to manage current during clock frequency changes Jong-Suk Lee, Shih-Chieh Wen 2016-08-09 $44,625,000
9383806 Multi-core processor instruction throttling Gerard R. Williams, III, Rohit Kumar, Sandeep Gupta, Suresh Periyacheri, Shih-Chieh Wen 2016-07-05 $80,430,000
9311100 Usefulness indication for indirect branch prediction training Sandeep Gupta, Shyam Sundar, Gerard R. Williams, III, Conrado Blasco-Allue 2016-04-12 $59,139,000
9304573 Dynamic voltage and frequency management based on active processors Jong-Suk Lee, Daniel C. Murray 2016-04-05 $46,684,000
9294103 Pre-program of clock generation circuit for faster lock coming out of reset Jong-Suk Lee, Shih-Chieh Wen, Toshinari Takayanagi 2016-03-22 $58,412,000
9280471 Mechanism for sharing private caches in a SoC Manu Gulati, Harshavardhan Kaushikkar, Gurjeet S. Saund, Gerard R. Williams, III, Sukalpa Biswas +2 more 2016-03-08 $72,237,000
9158541 Register renamer that handles multiple register sizes aliased to the same storage locations 2015-10-13 $69,675,000
8566528 Combining write buffer with dynamically adjustable flush metrics Peter J. Bannon, Andrew J. Beaumont-Smith, Ramesh Gunna, Brian P. Lilly, Jaidev P. Patwardhan +2 more 2013-10-22 $104,740,000
8514873 Advanced telecommunications router and crossbar switch controller Brian Hang Wai Yang, Kai-Yeung (Sunny) Siu, Mizanur Rahman, Gaurav Singh 2013-08-20
8352685 Combining write buffer with dynamically adjustable flush metrics Peter J. Bannon, Andrew J. Beaumont-Smith, Ramesh Gunna, Brian P. Lilly, Jaidev P. Patwardhan +2 more 2013-01-08 $91,537,000
8255670 Replay reduction for power saving Po-Yung Chang, Jesse Pan, Ramesh Gunna, Tse-Yu Yeh, James B. Keller 2012-08-28 $72,244,000
8219787 Early release of resources by proceeding to retire store operations from exception reporting stage but keeping in load/store queue Po-Yung Chang 2012-07-10 $155,116,000
7996662 Floating point status/control register encodings for speculative register field Daniel C. Murray, Junji Sugisawa 2011-08-09 $65,800,000