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Thomas B. Brightman — 11 Patents

CYCyrix: 5 patents #11 of 51Top 25%
FSFreeescale Semiconductor: 2 patents #1,335 of 3,767Top 40%
NSNational Semiconductor: 2 patents #867 of 2,238Top 40%
VIVia-Cyrix: 2 patents #6 of 30Top 20%
Plano, TX: #642 of 4,842 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #13,915 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Thomas B. Brightman has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cyrix. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in January 2010. Thomas B. Brightman ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Thomas B. Brightman in Plano, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1991.peak 21991: 2 patents19911992: 1 patents19921995: 1 patents19951998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents19992002: 1 patents20022006: 2 patents20062010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7647472 High speed and high throughput digital communications processor with efficient cooperation between programmable processing components Andrew D. Funk, David J. Husak, Edward J. McLellan, Andrew Brown, John F. Brown +4 more 2010-01-12
RE39385 Method and apparatus for performing mathematical functions using polynomial approximation and a rectangular aspect ratio multiplier Willard S. Briggs, Warren E. Ferguson 2006-11-07
7100020 Digital communications processor Andrew Brown, John F. Brown, James Arthur Farrell, Andrew D. Funk, David J. Husak +4 more 2006-08-29
6442635 Processor architecture for virtualizing selective external bus transactions Frederick S. Dunlap, Andrew D. Funk 2002-08-27
5956680 Virtual audio generation and capture in a computer Eric James Behnke 1999-09-21 $47,564,000
5838987 Processor for eliminating external isochronous subsystems Frederick S. Dunlap, Andrew D. Funk 1998-11-17 $6,918,000
5724549 Cache coherency without bus master arbitration signals Thomas Drennan Selgas, William C. Patton, JR. 1998-03-03
5420989 Coprocessor interface supporting I/O or memory mapped communications Robert Maher, John K. Eitrheim, Fred D. Dunlap, Jr. 1995-05-30 $8,205,000
5159566 Method and apparatus for performing the square root function using a rectangular aspect ratio multiplier Willard S. Briggs, David W. Matula 1992-10-27
5060182 Method and apparatus for performing the square root function using a rectangular aspect ratio multiplier Willard S. Briggs, David W. Matula 1991-10-22
5042001 Method and apparatus for performing mathematical functions using polynomial approximation and a rectangular aspect ratio multiplier Warren E. Ferguson 1991-08-20

Frequent Collaborators

Andrew D. Funk4 shared
Willard S. Briggs3 shared
Donald A. Priore2 shared
Paul Schmitt2 shared
Andrew Brown2 shared
James Arthur Farrell2 shared

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