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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Alan Gara — 127 Patents

IBM: 120 patents #416 of 70,183Top 1%
Intel: 4 patents #8,538 of 30,777Top 30%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
Palo Alto, CA: #66 of 9,675 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,421 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,845 of 4,157,543Top 1%
127 Patents All Time
Alan Gara has been granted 127 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in January 2025. Alan Gara ranks #8,845 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.21%). Patent records list Alan Gara in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 18 patents in 2013.peak 182003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 6 patents2008: 17 patents20082009: 10 patents2010: 13 patents20102011: 7 patents2012: 17 patents20122013: 18 patents2014: 14 patents20142015: 4 patents2016: 8 patents20162018: 6 patents2020: 3 patents20202025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 127 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12212498 Message split-aggregation for multi-stage electrical interconnection network Young Jun Hong, Wonseok Lee, Wonyong LEE, Wooseok Chang 2025-01-28
10740097 Embedding global barrier and collective in a torus network Dong Chen, Paul W. Coteus, Noel A. Eisley, Philip Heidelberger, Robert M. Senger +4 more 2020-08-11 $2,122,000
10713043 Opcode counting for performance measurement David L. Satterfield, Robert E. Walkup 2020-07-14 $4,158,000
10558575 Processors, methods, and systems with a configurable spatial accelerator Kermin Fleming, Kent D. Glossop, Simon C. Steely, Jr., JINJIE TANG 2020-02-11 $33,267,000
10140179 Combined group ECC protection and subgroup parity protection Dong Chen, Philip Heidelberger, Martin Ohmacht 2018-11-27 $2,773,000
10069599 Collective network for computer structures Matthias A. Blumrich, Paul W. Coteus, Dong Chen, Mark E. Giampapa, Philip Heidelberger +4 more 2018-09-04 $2,923,000
9971713 Multi-petascale highly efficient parallel supercomputer Sameh W. Asaad, Ralph E. Bellofatto, Michael A. Blocksome, Matthias A. Blumrich, Peter Boyle +54 more 2018-05-15 $9,390,000
9921831 Opcode counting for performance measurement David L. Satterfield, Robert E. Walkup 2018-03-20 $2,525,000
9864423 Mitigating component performance variation Steve S. Sylvester, Jonathan M. Eastep, Ramkumar Nagappan, Christopher M. Cantalupo 2018-01-09 $14,051,000
9857858 Managing power consumption and performance of computing systems Devadatta V. Bodas, John H. Crawford 2018-01-02 $11,729,000
9507647 Cache as point of coherence in multiprocessor system Matthias A. Blumrich, Luis Ceze, Dong Chen, Phlip Heidelberger, Martin Ohmacht +2 more 2016-11-29 $4,439,000
9501333 Multiprocessor system with multiple concurrent modes of execution Daniel Ahn, Luis Ceze, Dong Chen, Philip Heidelberger, Martin Ohmacht 2016-11-22 $3,414,000
9473569 Opcode counting for performance measurement David L. Satterfield, Robert E. Walkup 2016-10-18 $1,445,000
9374414 Embedding global and collective in a torus network with message class map based tree path selection Dong Chen, Paul W. Coteus, Noel A. Eisley, Philip Heidelberger, Robert M. Senger +4 more 2016-06-21 $3,815,000
9373415 Dynamic hard error detection Pradip Bose, Hans M. Jacobson 2016-06-21 $3,815,000
9281079 Dynamic hard error detection Pradip Bose, Hans M. Jacobson 2016-03-08 $4,405,000
9252814 Combined group ECC protection and subgroup parity protection Dong Chen, Philip Heidelberger, Martin Ohmacht 2016-02-02 $1,325,000
9244759 Error recovery to enable error-free message transfer between nodes of a computer network Matthias A. Blumrich, Paul W. Coteus, Dong Chen, Mark E. Giampapa, Philip Heidelberger +4 more 2016-01-26 $2,109,000
9106656 Opcode counting for performance measurement David L. Satterfield, Robert E. Walkup 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
9081501 Multi-petascale highly efficient parallel supercomputer Sameh W. Asaad, Ralph E. Bellofatto, Michael A. Blocksome, Matthias A. Blumrich, Peter Boyle +55 more 2015-07-14 $7,900,000
9037892 System-wide power management control via clock distribution network Paul W. Coteus, Thomas M. Gooding, Rudolf A. Haring, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Thomas A. Liebsch +1 more 2015-05-19 $4,677,000
8930752 Scheduler for multiprocessor system switch with selective pairing Michael K. Gschwind, Valentina Salapura 2015-01-06 $2,134,000
8904392 Shared performance monitor in a multiprocessor system George Liang-Tai Chiu, Valentina Salapura 2014-12-02 $2,384,000
8868837 Cache directory lookup reader set encoding for partial cache line speculation support Martin Ohmacht 2014-10-21 $3,429,000
8856490 Optimizing TLB entries for mixed page size storage in contiguous memory Dong Chen, Mark E. Giampapa, Philip Heidelberger, Jon K. Kriegel, Martin Ohmacht +1 more 2014-10-07 $3,450,000