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Dharmendra S. Modha — 256 Patents

IBM: 256 patents #104 of 70,183Top 1%
CUCornell University: 2 patents #404 of 1,984Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #34 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #335 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #1,889 of 4,157,543Top 1%
256 Patents All Time
Dharmendra S. Modha has been granted 256 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in November 2025. Dharmendra S. Modha ranks #1,889 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.05%). Patent records list Dharmendra S. Modha in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 26 patents in 2016.peak 262001: 2 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents2004: 4 patents20042005: 3 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 6 patents2010: 6 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 3 patents2013: 7 patents20132014: 19 patents2015: 17 patents2016: 26 patents20162017: 20 patents2018: 25 patents2019: 22 patents20192020: 25 patents2021: 21 patents2022: 17 patents20222023: 6 patents2024: 5 patents2025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 256 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
12443830 Compressed weight distribution in networks of neural processors Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Pallab Datta, Steve Esser +2 more 2025-10-14
12406186 Conflict-free, stall-free, broadcast network on chip Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, John V. Arthur, Jun Sawada, Michael Vincent DeBole +2 more 2025-09-02
12400109 Functional synthesis of networks of neurosynaptic cores on neuromorphic substrates Andrew S. Cassidy, Pallab Datta, Myron D. Flickner 2025-08-26
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
12260316 Automatic timing resolution among neural network components Pallab Datta, Myron D. Flickner 2025-03-25
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
12182686 Neural hardware accelerator for parallel and distributed tensor computations 2024-12-31 $22,533,000
12165050 Networks for distributing parameters and data to neural network compute cores John V. Arthur, Brian Taba, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Andrew S. Cassidy, Pallab Datta +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
11823054 Learned step size quantization Steve Esser, Jeffrey L. McKinstry, Deepika Bablani, Rathinakumar Appuswamy 2023-11-21 $7,457,000
11663461 Instruction distribution in an array of neural network cores Hartmut Penner, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Pallab Datta +5 more 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11636317 Long-short term memory (LSTM) cells on spiking neuromorphic hardware Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Michael Beyeler, Pallab Datta, Myron D. Flickner 2023-04-25 $8,760,000
11586893 Core utilization optimization by dividing computational blocks across cores Arnon Amir, Pallab Datta, Nimrod Megiddo 2023-02-21 $5,683,000
11580366 Neuromorphic event-driven neural computing architecture in a scalable neural network Filipp A. Akopyan, John V. Arthur, Rajit Manohar, Paul A. Merolla, Alyosha Molnar +1 more 2023-02-14 $15,081,000
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, Andrew S. Cassidy, John V. Arthur, Tapan K. Nayak, Carlos O. Otero +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
11481621 Unsupervised, supervised and reinforced learning via spiking computation 2022-10-25 $10,001,000
11410017 Synaptic, dendritic, somatic, and axonal plasticity in a network of neural cores using a plastic multi-stage crossbar switching 2022-08-09 $6,406,000
11341401 Hardware architecture for simulating a neural network of neurons Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Pallab Datta, Paul A. Merolla 2022-05-24 $10,138,000
11301757 Fault-tolerant power-driven synthesis Charles J. Alpert, Pallab Datta, Myron D. Flickner, Zhou Li, Gi-Joon Nam 2022-04-12 $4,292,000