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Eric C. Fromm — 28 Patents

CRCray Research: 14 patents #5 of 208Top 3%
SGSilicon Graphics: 9 patents #29 of 758Top 4%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 4 patents #683 of 4,473Top 20%
CRCray: 1 patents #91 of 150Top 65%
Eau Claire, WI: #12 of 370 inventorsTop 4%
Wisconsin: #1,142 of 40,088 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Eric C. Fromm has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cray Research. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in March 2021. Eric C. Fromm ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Eric C. Fromm in Eau Claire, WI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1995.peak 31988: 1 patents19881990: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 3 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 2 patents1998: 3 patents19982000: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 2 patents20052009: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122015: 2 patents2016: 2 patents20162019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10944694 Predictive arbitration circuit Joseph G. Tietz 2021-03-09 $14,252,000
10721185 Age-based arbitration circuit Joseph G. Tietz 2020-07-21 $8,935,000
10592465 Node controller direct socket group memory access Frank R. Dropps 2020-03-17 $2,452,000
10521260 Workload management system and process Steven Dean, Michael S. Woodacre, Randal S. Passint, Thomas Edward McGee, Michael Malewicki +1 more 2019-12-31 $4,324,000
9250826 Enhanced performance monitoring method and apparatus 2016-02-02 $1,545,000
9237093 Bandwidth on-demand adaptive routing Joseph G. Tietz, Gregory Michael Thorson 2016-01-12 $3,380,000
9208090 Transactional memory proxy 2015-12-08 $2,659,000
9104343 Global synchronous clock circuit and method for blade processors Rodney Ruesch, Robert W. Cutler, Richard G. Finstad, Dale R. Purdy, Brian J. Johnson +1 more 2015-08-11 $2,204,000
8239566 Non-saturating fairness protocol and method for NACKing systems Gregory Michael Thorson 2012-08-07 $4,476,000
7587305 Transistor level verilog Robert James Lutz, Mark S. Birrittella, Harro Zimmermann 2009-09-08 $6,462,000
6925547 Remote address translation in a multiprocessor system Steven L. Scott, Chris Dickson, Michael Anderson 2005-08-02 $1,625,000
6839856 Method and circuit for reliable data capture in the presence of bus-master changeovers Rodney Ruesch 2005-01-04 $3,895,000
6779072 Method and apparatus for accessing MMR registers distributed across a large asic Mark F. Sauder, Michael Anderson 2004-08-17 $7,675,000
6604185 Distribution of address-translation-purge requests to multiple processors 2003-08-05 $2,692,000
6119198 Recursive address centrifuge for distributed memory massively parallel processing systems 2000-09-12
6029212 Method of handling arbitrary size message queues in which a message is written into an aligned block of external registers within a plurality of external registers Richard E. Kessler, Steven M. Oberlin, Steven L. Scott 2000-02-22
5835925 Using external registers to extend memory reference capabilities of a microprocessor Richard E. Kessler, Steven M. Oberlin, Steven L. Scott 1998-11-10
5784706 Virtual to logical to physical address translation for distributed memory massively parallel processing systems Steven M. Oberlin, Randal S. Passint 1998-07-21
5765181 System and method of addressing distributed memory within a massively parallel processing system Steven M. Oberlin, Janet M. Eberhart, Gary W. Elsesser, Thomas A. MacDonald, Douglas M. Pase +1 more 1998-06-09
5696922 Recursive address centrifuge for distributed memory massively parallel processing systems 1997-12-09
5592487 Communication protocol for transferring information across a serial communication link Kevin M. Knecht 1997-01-07
5581705 Messaging facility with hardware tail pointer and software implemented head pointer message queue for distributed memory massively parallel processing system Randal S. Passint, Steven M. Oberlin 1996-12-03
5434995 Barrier synchronization for distributed memory massively parallel processing systems Steven M. Oberlin 1995-07-18 $2,941,000
5420583 Fiber optic channel extender interface method and apparatus Kevin M. Knecht 1995-05-30 $4,876,000
5390041 Fiber optic channel extender interface method and apparatus Kevin M. Knecht 1995-02-14 $1,250,000