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Brian Taba — 19 Patents

IBM: 17 patents #6,529 of 70,183Top 10%
EMEvolved Machines: 2 patents #2 of 2Top 100%
Cupertino, CA: #885 of 6,989 inventorsTop 15%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Brian Taba has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in November 2025. Brian Taba ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Brian Taba in Cupertino, CA, US.

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Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12481861 Hierarchical parallelism in a network of distributed neural network cores John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Myron D. Flickner, Pallab Datta, Hartmut Penner +5 more 2025-11-25
12400112 Efficient method for VLSI implementation of useful neural network activation functions Jun Sawada, Myron D. Flickner, Andrew S. Cassidy, John V. Arthur, Pallab Datta +6 more 2025-08-26
12387082 Scheduler for mapping neural networks onto an array of neural cores in an inference processing unit Pallab Datta, Andrew S. Cassidy, Myron D. Flickner, Hartmut Penner, Rathinakumar Appuswamy +5 more 2025-08-12
12182687 Data representation for dynamic precision in neural network cores John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Myron D. Flickner, Pallab Datta, Hartmut Penner +5 more 2024-12-31 $22,533,000
12165050 Networks for distributing parameters and data to neural network compute cores John V. Arthur, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Andrew S. Cassidy, Pallab Datta, Steven K. Esser +5 more 2024-12-10 $44,181,000
12067472 Defect resistant designs for location-sensitive neural network processor arrays Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Pallab Datta, Steven K. Esser +5 more 2024-08-20 $51,741,000
12056598 Runtime reconfigurable neural network processor core Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Pallab Datta, Steven K. Esser +5 more 2024-08-06 $17,119,000
11847553 Parallel computational architecture with reconfigurable core-level and vector-level parallelism Andrew S. Cassidy, Myron D. Flickner, Pallab Datta, Hartmut Penner, Rathinakumar Appuswamy +5 more 2023-12-19 $9,403,000
11663461 Instruction distribution in an array of neural network cores Hartmut Penner, Dharmendra S. Modha, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy +5 more 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11537859 Flexible precision neural inference processing unit Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Pallab Datta, Steve Esser +4 more 2022-12-27 $9,721,000
11521085 Neural network weight distribution from a grid of memory elements Jun Sawada, Dharmendra S. Modha, Andrew S. Cassidy, John V. Arthur, Tapan K. Nayak +3 more 2022-12-06 $6,201,000
11501140 Runtime reconfigurable neural network processor core Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Pallab Datta, Steven K. Esser +5 more 2022-11-15 $5,426,000
11263011 Compound instruction set architecture for a neural inference chip Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Pallab Datta, Michael Vincent DeBole +5 more 2022-03-01 $6,542,000
11238347 Data distribution in an array of neural network cores Andrew S. Cassidy, Myron D. Flickner, Pallab Datta, Hartmut Penner, Rathinakumar Appuswamy +5 more 2022-02-01 $4,586,000
11010662 Massively parallel neural inference computing elements Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Pallab Datta, Steven K. Esser +5 more 2021-05-18 $4,116,000
10621489 Massively parallel neural inference computing elements Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Pallab Datta, Steven K. Esser +5 more 2020-04-14 $1,668,000
9704094 Mapping of algorithms to neurosynaptic hardware Arnon Amir, David J. Berg, Pallab Datta, Myron D. Flickner, Paul A. Merolla +2 more 2017-07-11 $1,748,000
8812413 Growing simulated biological neural circuits in a simulated physical volume Paul A. Rhodes 2014-08-19
8165971 Generating simulated neural circuits in a voxel space Paul A. Rhodes 2012-04-24