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Michael Klein — 42 Patents

IBM: 34 patents #2,881 of 70,183Top 5%
SSSteeplechase Software: 4 patents #1 of 10Top 10%
ACAllen-Bradley Company: 2 patents #119 of 512Top 25%
ANAlcatel N.V.: 1 patents #259 of 816Top 35%
Motorola: 1 patents #10,119 of 14,142Top 75%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Michael Klein has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in September 2025. Michael Klein ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Michael Klein in Schenefeld, MI, DE.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12430127 Vector test decimal instruction for validity testing Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Petra Leber, Andreas Wagner, Bruce C. Giamei, Timothy J. Slegel +3 more 2025-09-30
12190078 Rounding hexadecimal floating point numbers using binary incrementors Petra Leber, Cedric Lichtenau, Stefan Payer, Kerstin Claudia Schelm 2025-01-07
12056465 Verifying the correctness of a leading zero counter Petra Leber, Cedric Lichtenau, Stefan Payer, Kerstin Claudia Schelm 2024-08-06 $17,119,000
11861325 Repurposed hexadecimal floating point data path Nicol Hofmann, Petra Leber, Kerstin Claudia Schelm 2024-01-02 $10,021,000
11531546 Hexadecimal floating point multiply and add instruction Eric M. Schwarz, Stefan Payer, Petra Leber, Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Timothy J. Slegel +2 more 2022-12-20 $17,447,000
11442726 Vector pack and unpack instructions Eric M. Schwarz, Timothy J. Slegel, Jonathan D. Bradbury, Reid T. Copeland, Xin Guo 2022-09-13 $6,415,000
11314512 Efficient checking of a condition code anticipator for a floating point processor and/or unit Petra Leber, Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Cedric Lichtenau 2022-04-26 $5,083,000
11269651 Reusing adjacent SIMD unit for fast wide result generation Nicol Hofmann, Cedric Lichtenau, Osher Yifrach 2022-03-08 $4,244,000
11188299 Repurposed hexadecimal floating point data path Nicol Hofmann, Petra Leber, Kerstin Claudia Schelm 2021-11-30 $2,996,000
11175890 Hexadecimal exponent alignment for binary floating point unit Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Petra Leber, Nicol Hofmann 2021-11-16 $1,912,000
11159183 Residue checking of entire normalizer output of an extended result Nicol Hofmann, Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Razvan Peter Figuli 2021-10-26 $2,874,000
11099602 Fault-tolerant clock gating Razvan Peter Figuli, Cedric Lichtenau, Stefan Payer 2021-08-24 $4,861,000
10983159 Method and apparatus for wiring multiple technology evaluation circuits Stefan Payer, Cedric Lichtenau, Ralf Richter 2021-04-20 $5,008,000
10890622 Integrated circuit control latch protection Stefan Payer, Nicol Hofmann, Cedric Lichtenau 2021-01-12 $3,912,000
10572223 Parallel decimal multiplication hardware with a 3x generator Steven R. Carlough, Michael K. Kroener, Silvia M. Mueller 2020-02-25 $1,919,000
10558432 Multiply-add operations of binary numbers in an arithmetic unit Tina Babinsky, Cedric Lichtenau, Silvia M. Mueller 2020-02-11 $2,410,000
10416962 Decimal and binary floating point arithmetic calculations Steven R. Carlough, Juergen Haess, Klaus M. Kroener, Petra Leber, Silvia M. Mueller +1 more 2019-09-17 $3,647,000
10372417 Multiply-add operations of binary numbers in an arithmetic unit Tina Babinsky, Cedric Lichtenau, Silvia M. Mueller 2019-08-06 $1,880,000
10310815 Parallel decimal multiplication hardware with a 3X generator Steven R. Carlough, Michael K. Kroener, Silvia M. Mueller 2019-06-04 $2,774,000
10296294 Multiply-add operations of binary numbers in an arithmetic unit Tina Babinsky, Cedric Lichtenau, Silvia M. Mueller 2019-05-21 $2,520,000
10275391 Combining of several execution units to compute a single wide scalar result Nicol Hofmann, Cedric Lichtenau 2019-04-30 $3,198,000
10169451 Rapid character substring searching Stefan Payer, Razvan Peter Figuli, Cedric Lichtenau 2019-01-01
10140090 Computing and summing up multiple products in a single multiplier Manuela Niekisch 2018-11-27 $2,773,000
9959093 Binary fused multiply-add floating-point calculations Klaus M. Kroener, Cedric Lichtenau, Silvia M. Mueller 2018-05-01 $4,480,000
9952829 Binary fused multiply-add floating-point calculations Klaus M. Kroener, Cedric Lichtenau, Silvia M. Mueller 2018-04-24 $2,845,000