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Gary W. Thome — 49 Patents

CCCompaq Computer: 47 patents #2 of 1,604Top 1%
AMD: 4 patents #2,630 of 9,280Top 30%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 1 patents #2,081 of 4,473Top 50%
HP: 1 patents #11,359 of 16,619Top 70%
Houston, TX: #223 of 21,073 inventorsTop 2%
Texas: #1,794 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #55,592 of 4,157,543Top 2%
49 Patents All Time
Gary W. Thome has been granted 49 US patents while listed as an inventor at Compaq Computer. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in August 2021. Gary W. Thome ranks #55,592 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Gary W. Thome in Houston, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 49 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11100000 Embedded image management Aland B. Adams, Michael S. Bunker, John Sarni 2021-08-24 $6,767,000
9003091 Flow control for a Serial Peripheral Interface bus David F. Heinrich, Theodore F. Emerson, Kevin B. Leigh, Vincent Nguyen, Andrew Brown 2015-04-07 $10,051,000
6215504 Line drawing using operand routing and operation selective multimedia extension unit Brian E. Longhenry, John S. Thayer 2001-04-10 $86,285,000
6154831 Decoding operands for multimedia applications instruction coded with less number of bits than combination of register slots and selectable specific values John S. Thayer, John G. Favor, Frederick Daniel Weber 2000-11-28
6115791 Hierarchical cache system flushing scheme based on monitoring and decoding processor bus cycles for flush/clear sequence control Michael J. Collins 2000-09-05 $97,575,000
6061521 Computer having multimedia operations executable as two distinct sets of operations within a single instruction cycle John S. Thayer, John G. Favor, Frederick Daniel Weber 2000-05-09
6009505 System and method for routing one operand to arithmetic logic units from fixed register slots and another operand from any register slot John S. Thayer, Brian E. Longhenry, John G. Favor, Frederick Daniel Weber 1999-12-28
5991865 MPEG motion compensation using operand routing and performing add and divide in a single instruction Brian E. Longhenry, John S. Thayer 1999-11-23 $59,053,000
5960459 Memory controller having precharge prediction based on processor and PCI bus cycles Michael Moriarty, John E. Larson 1999-09-28 $78,647,000
5938739 Memory controller including write posting queues, bus read control logic, and a data contents counter Michael J. Collins, Michael Moriarty, Jens K. Ramsey, John E. Larson 1999-08-17 $124,261,000
5931892 Enhanced adaptive filtering technique John S. Thayer 1999-08-03 $69,409,000
5918023 System design to support either Pentium Pro processors, Pentium II processors, and future processor without having to replace the system board Earl C. Reeves, David Olson, Kameron Ayati 1999-06-29 $94,584,000
5892964 Computer bridge interfaces for accelerated graphics port and peripheral component interconnect devices Ronald T. Horan, Sompong Paul Olarig 1999-04-06 $88,307,000
5893145 System and method for routing operands within partitions of a source register to partitions within a destination register John S. Thayer, Brian E. Longhenry 1999-04-06
5862063 Enhanced wavetable processing technique on a vector processor having operand routing and slot selectable operations John S. Thayer 1999-01-19 $221,474,000
5857116 Circuit for disabling an address masking control signal when a microprocessor is in a system management mode Basem Abu Ayash 1999-01-05 $157,293,000
5848267 Computer system speed control using memory refresh counter 1998-12-08 $106,449,000
5822756 Microprocessor cache memory way prediction based on the way of a previous memory read Jens K. Ramsey 1998-10-13 $39,599,000
5819105 System in which processor interface snoops first and second level caches in parallel with a memory access by a bus mastering device Michael Moriarty, Michael J. Collins, John E. Larson 1998-10-06 $45,598,000
5813038 Memory controller having precharge prediction based on processor and PC bus cycles Michael Moriarty, John E. Larson 1998-09-22 $83,462,000
5809549 Burst SRAMs for use with a high speed clock Michael J. Collins 1998-09-15 $48,638,000
5778433 Computer system including a first level write-back cache and a second level cache Michael J. Collins 1998-07-07 $114,952,000
5778413 Programmable memory controller having two level look-up for memory timing parameter Jeffrey C. Stevens, John E. Larson, Michael J. Collins, Michael Moriarty 1998-07-07 $114,952,000
5692154 Circuit for masking a dirty status indication provided by a cache dirty memory under certain conditions so that a cache memory controller properly controls a cache tag memory Brian B. Tucker 1997-11-25 $94,536,000
5664225 Circuit for disabling an address masking control signal when a microprocessor is in a system management mode Basem Abu Ayash 1997-09-02 $106,102,000