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Burton J. Smith — 21 Patents

CRCray: 19 patents #4 of 150Top 3%
ULUniversity Of Notre Dame Du Lac: 1 patents #183 of 437Top 45%
Northrop Grumman: 1 patents #1,512 of 1,695Top 90%
Seattle, WA: #1,249 of 21,776 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #4,391 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Burton J. Smith has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cray. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in January 2018. Burton J. Smith ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Burton J. Smith in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2008.peak 41980: 1 patents19802001: 1 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 4 patents20092011: 1 patents2018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9864005 Wave-pipelined logic circuit scanning system Douglas M. Carmean 2018-01-09 $30,387,000
7904685 Synchronization techniques in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Simon H. Kahan, Brian D. Koblenz, Allan Porterfield 2011-03-08 $1,417,000
7584332 Computer systems with lightweight multi-threaded architectures Peter M. Kogge, Jay B. Brockman, David T. Harper, Charles David Callahan, II 2009-09-01 $6,159,000
7558889 Accessing a collection of data items in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Simon H. Kahan, Brian D. Koblenz, Allan Porterfield 2009-07-07 $3,302,000
7558910 Detecting access to a memory location in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Simon H. Kahan, Brian D. Koblenz, Allan Porterfield 2009-07-07 $3,302,000
7536690 Deferred task swapping in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Susan L. Coatney, Brian D. Koblenz, Richard D. Korry 2009-05-19 $1,654,000
7428727 Debugging techniques in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Laurence S. Kaplan, Mark L. Niehaus 2008-09-23 $2,246,000
7426732 Placing a task of a multithreaded environment in a known state Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Susan L. Coatney, Brian D. Koblenz, Richard D. Korry 2008-09-16 $2,623,000
7392525 Inter-thread long jumps in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Susan L. Coatney, Brian D. Koblenz, Richard D. Korry 2008-06-24 $1,715,000
7360221 Task swap out in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Susan L. Coatney, Brian D. Koblenz, Richard D. Korry 2008-04-15 $2,119,000
7191444 Stream management in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Susan L. Coatney, Brian D. Koblenz, Richard D. Korry 2007-03-13 $5,898,000
7165150 Restricting access to memory in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Simon H. Kahan, Brian D. Koblenz, Allan Porterfield 2007-01-16 $6,242,000
7117330 Synchronization techniques in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Simon H. Kahan, Brian D. Koblenz, Allan Porterfield 2006-10-03 $4,577,000
6952827 User program and operating system interface in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Susan L. Coatney, Brian D. Koblenz, Richard D. Korry 2005-10-04 $1,437,000
6862635 Synchronization techniques in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Simon H. Kahan, Brian D. Koblenz, Allan Porterfield 2005-03-01 $4,745,000
6848097 Debugging techniques in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Laurence S. Kaplan, Mark L. Niehaus 2005-01-25 $5,595,000
6629250 Adjustable data delay using programmable clock shift Andrew S. Kopser 2003-09-30 $12,745,000
6480818 Debugging techniques in a multithreaded environment Gail A. Alverson, Laurence S. Kaplan, Mark L. Niehaus 2002-11-12 $5,363,000
6353829 Method and system for memory allocation in a multiprocessing environment Brian D. Koblenz, Allan Porterfield 2002-03-05 $1,900,000
6311266 Instruction look-ahead system and hardware Robert Alverson 2001-10-30 $1,392,000
4229790 Concurrent task and instruction processor and method Maxwell C. Gilliland, Gary L. Ferguson 1980-10-21 $808,000