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Gregory H. Efland — 12 Patents

Broadcom: 9 patents #1,197 of 9,346Top 15%
Cypress Semiconductor: 2 patents #965 of 1,866Top 55%
SGSilicon Graphics: 1 patents #400 of 758Top 55%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,971 of 9,675 inventorsTop 25%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Gregory H. Efland has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Broadcom. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in April 2012. Gregory H. Efland ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Gregory H. Efland in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2006.peak 42000: 1 patents20002004: 2 patents20042006: 4 patents20062007: 2 patents20072009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8149904 Asymmetric digital subscriber line modem apparatus and methods therefor Haixiang Liang, Kevin H. Peterson, Yuanjie Chen, Alan Corry, Nino P. Ferrario +8 more 2012-04-03 $5,185,000
7809902 Method and system for copying DMA with separate strides by a modulo-n counter Jeff Z. Guan, Lin Yin 2010-10-05 $5,358,000
7482964 Switching between lower and higher power modes in an ADC for lower/higher precision operations Srinivasa H. Garlapati, Paul Lettieri, Jason A. Trachewsky, Tom W. Kwan 2009-01-27 $8,083,000
7184468 Method and system for implementing a conditional one's complement of partial address 2007-02-27 $13,688,000
7177988 Method and system for synchronizing processor and DMA using ownership flags Jeff Z. Guan, Gong-san Yu 2007-02-13 $13,992,000
7146391 Method and system for implementing SLICE instructions Haixiang Liang, Yuanjie Chen 2006-12-05 $21,692,000
7142139 Powering down of DAC and ADC for receive/transmit modes of operation in a wireless device Venkat Kodavati, Gouri Pidugu, Srinivasa H. Garlapati 2006-11-28 $10,330,000
7116259 Switching between lower and higher power modes in an ADC for lower/higher precision operations Srinivasa H. Garlapati, Paul Lettieri, Jason A. Trachewsky, Tom W. Kwan 2006-10-03 $13,070,000
7079058 Powering down of DAC and ADC for receive/transmit modes of operation in a wireless device Venkat Kodavati, Gouri Pidugu, Srinivasa H. Garlapati 2006-07-18 $7,044,000
6721878 Low-latency interrupt handling during memory access delay periods in microprocessors Somnath Paul 2004-04-13 $11,847,000
6704863 Low-latency DMA handling in pipelined processors Somnath Paul 2004-03-09 $15,145,000
6075906 System and method for the scaling of image streams that use motion vectors Stephen C. Fenwick, Timothy J. Van Hook 2000-06-13 $8,495,000