Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
RP

Robert Alan Philhower — 22 Patents

IBM: 22 patents #4,922 of 70,183Top 8%
Valley Cottage, NY: #5 of 87 inventorsTop 6%
New York: #6,196 of 115,490 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Robert Alan Philhower has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in October 2021. Robert Alan Philhower ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Robert Alan Philhower in Valley Cottage, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2009.peak 32000: 1 patents20002004: 2 patents20042008: 2 patents20082009: 3 patents20092010: 3 patents20102011: 3 patents20112012: 1 patents20122018: 2 patents20182020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11157280 Dynamic fusion based on operand size Maarten J. Boersma, Bruce M. Fleischer, Balaram Sinharoy 2021-10-26 $2,874,000
11074379 Multi-cycle latch tree synthesis Lakshmi N. Reddy, Gustavo E. Tellez, Paul G. Villarrubia, Christopher J. Berry, Michael H. Wood +2 more 2021-07-27 $4,187,000
10740104 Tagging target branch predictors with context with index modification and late stop fetch on tag mismatch Jentje Leenstra, Nicholas R. Orzol, Christian Zoellin, Michael J. Genden 2020-08-11 $2,122,000
10579384 Effective address based instruction fetch unit for out of order processors Balaram Sinharoy 2020-03-03 $1,865,000
10552159 Power management of branch predictors in a computer processor David S. Levitan, Nicholas R. Orzol 2020-02-04 $2,135,000
10037207 Power management of branch predictors in a computer processor David S. Levitan, Nicholas R. Orzol 2018-07-31 $5,084,000
9996351 Power management of branch predictors in a computer processor David S. Levitan, Nicholas R. Orzol 2018-06-12 $1,886,000
8255669 Method and apparatus for thread priority control in a multi-threaded processor based upon branch issue information including branch confidence information Michael K. Gschwind, Raymond Cheung Yeung 2012-08-28 $8,752,000
8006070 Method and apparatus for inhibiting fetch throttling when a processor encounters a low confidence branch instruction in an information handling system Michael K. Gschwind, Raymond Cheung Yeung 2011-08-23 $4,386,000
7925853 Method and apparatus for controlling memory array gating when a processor executes a low confidence branch instruction in an information handling system Michael K. Gschwind, Raymond Cheung Yeung 2011-04-12 $5,593,000
7913070 Time-of-life counter for handling instruction flushes from a queue Christopher M. Abernathy, Jonathan James DeMent, Ronald P. Hall, David Shippy 2011-03-22 $5,211,000
7797521 Method, system, and computer program product for path-correlated indirect address predictions Richard J. Eickemeyer, Michael K. Gschwind, Ravi Nair 2010-09-14 $5,460,000
7725659 Alignment of cache fetch return data relative to a thread Michael K. Gschwind, Hans M. Jacobson 2010-05-25 $4,007,000
7681056 Dynamic power management in a processor design Christopher M. Abernathy, Jonathan James DeMent, Ronald P. Hall, David Shippy 2010-03-16 $7,988,000
7627742 Method and apparatus for conserving power by throttling instruction fetching when a processor encounters low confidence branches in an information handling system Pradip Bose, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Chen-Yong Cher, Michael K. Gschwind, Ravi Nair +2 more 2009-12-01 $16,004,000
7512772 Soft error handling in microprocessors Michael K. Gschwind 2009-03-31 $5,042,000
7490224 Time-of-life counter design for handling instruction flushes from a queue Christopher M. Abernathy, Jonathan James DeMent, Ronald P. Hall, David Shippy 2009-02-10 $5,620,000
7401242 Dynamic power management in a processor design Christopher M. Abernathy, Jonathan James DeMent, Ronald P. Hall, David Shippy 2008-07-15 $7,406,000
7370176 System and method for high frequency stall design Jonathan James DeMent, Kurt A. Feiste, David Shippy 2008-05-06 $12,943,000
6785703 Simultaneous dual rail static carry-save-adder circuit using silicon on insulator technology Douglas H. Bradley, Tai Anh Cao 2004-08-31 $4,873,000
6711633 4:2 compressor circuit for use in an arithmetic unit Douglas H. Bradley, Tai Anh Cao, Wai Yin Wong 2004-03-23 $10,149,000
6131182 Method and apparatus for synthesizing and optimizing control logic based on SRCMOS logic array macros Michael P. Beakes, Barbara Alana Chappell, Terry I. Chappell, Gary S. Ditlow, Barry Lee Dorfman +5 more 2000-10-10 $63,451,000