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Alex E. Mericas — 6 Patents

IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
Austin, TX: #4,934 of 18,064 inventorsTop 30%
Texas: #24,637 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Alex E. Mericas has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in February 2015. Alex E. Mericas ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Alex E. Mericas in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 22004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092011: 2 patents20112015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8949579 Ineffective prefetch determination and latency optimization Miles Robert Dooley, Venkat R. Indukuru, Francis Patrick O'Connell 2015-02-03 $3,062,000
8055473 Performance monitor unit for sampling all performance events generated by a processor 2011-11-08 $3,097,000
8010334 Method and apparatus for evaluating integrated circuit design performance using basic block vectors, cycles per instruction (CPI) information and microarchitecture dependent information Robert H. Bell, Jr., Thomas W. Chen, Venkat R. Indukuru, Pattabi M. Seshadri, Madhavi G. Valluri 2011-08-30 $4,619,000
7548832 Method in a performance monitor for sampling all performance events generated by a processor 2009-06-16 $12,733,000
7200522 Method, apparatus, and computer program product in a performance monitor for sampling all performance events generated by a processor 2007-04-03 $7,379,000
6681321 Method system and apparatus for instruction execution tracing with out of order processors Jason N. Dale, Jim A. Kahle, Douglas R. G. Logan, William J. Starke, Philip L. Vitale 2004-01-20 $10,094,000