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David M. Chastain — 16 Patents

CCConvex Computer: 7 patents #1 of 33Top 4%
TITexas Instruments: 4 patents #3,300 of 12,488Top 30%
HP: 3 patents #5,824 of 7,018Top 85%
Plano, TX: #411 of 4,842 inventorsTop 9%
Texas: #9,126 of 125,132 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
David M. Chastain has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Convex Computer. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in July 1999. David M. Chastain ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list David M. Chastain in Plano, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1999Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21980: 1 patents19801985: 1 patents1986: 2 patents19861987: 2 patents1989: 2 patents19891990: 1 patents1991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19961998: 1 patents1999: 2 patents1999

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5930822 Method and system for maintaining strong ordering in a coherent memory system Kenneth Chaney, David Patrick 1999-07-27 $24,871,000
5859975 Parallel processing computer system having shared coherent memory and interconnections utilizing separate undirectional request and response lines for direct communication or using crossbar switching device Tony M. Brewer, Thomas L. Watson 1999-01-12 $46,533,000
5845071 Error containment cluster of nodes David Patrick, Alan D. Gant 1998-12-01 $51,484,000
5577204 Parallel processing computer system interconnections utilizing unidirectional communication links with separate request and response lines for direct communication or using a crossbar switching device Tony M. Brewer, Thomas L. Watson 1996-11-19
5560027 Scalable parallel processing systems wherein each hypernode has plural processing modules interconnected by crossbar and each processing module has SCI circuitry for forming multi-dimensional network with other hypernodes Thomas L. Watson, Tony M. Brewer 1996-09-24
5159686 Multi-processor computer system having process-independent communication register addressing James E. Mankovich, Gary Gostin 1992-10-27 $2,569,000
5050070 Multi-processor computer system having self-allocating processors James E. Mankovich, Gary Gostin 1991-09-17 $3,497,000
4926317 Hierarchical memory system with logical cache, physical cache, and address translation unit for generating a sequence of physical addresses Steven Jeffrey Wallach, James R. Weatherford 1990-05-15 $2,984,000
4873629 Instruction processing unit for computer Michael Harris, Gary Gostin 1989-10-10 $2,689,000
4812972 Microcode computer having dispatch and main control stores for storing the first and the remaining microinstructions of machine instructions Gary Gostin 1989-03-14 $1,677,000
4701917 Diagnostic circuit Thomas M. Jones 1987-10-20
4665506 Memory system with write protection James H. Cline 1987-05-12 $3,281,000
4620275 Computer system Steven Jeffrey Wallach, Thomas M. Jones, Frank J. Marshall, David A. Nobles, Kent Allen Fuka +19 more 1986-10-28
4597061 Memory system using pipeline circuitry for improved speed James H. Cline 1986-06-24 $2,659,000
4528666 Memory system with built in parity James H. Cline 1985-07-09 $5,066,000
4197589 Operation sequencing mechanism Merrill A. Cornish, John C. Jensen 1980-04-08 $2,079,000