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Stephen J. Powell — 47 Patents

IBM: 46 patents #1,927 of 70,183Top 3%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
Austin, TX: #513 of 18,064 inventorsTop 3%
Texas: #1,917 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #59,703 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47 Patents All Time
Stephen J. Powell has been granted 47 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in June 2023. Stephen J. Powell ranks #59,703 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Stephen J. Powell in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2015.peak 92012: 1 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 9 patents2016: 6 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 5 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 4 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 2 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11687254 Host synchronized autonomous data chip address sequencer for a distributed buffer memory system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben, Jie Zheng 2023-06-27 $4,778,000
11587600 Address/command chip controlled data chip address sequencing for a distributed memory buffer system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Warren E. Maule, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben +1 more 2023-02-21 $5,683,000
11520659 Refresh-hiding memory system staggered refresh Patrick J. Meaney, Glenn D. Gilda, David D. Cadigan, Christian Jacobi, Lawrence W. Jones 2022-12-06 $6,201,000
11379123 Address/command chip synchronized autonomous data chip address sequencer for a distributed buffer memory system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben, Jie Zheng 2022-07-05 $7,280,000
11372703 Reduced system memory latency via a variable latency interface John Liberty, Brad W. Michael, Nicholas Rolfe 2022-06-28 $8,334,000
11269561 Speculative bank activate dynamic random access memory (DRAM) scheduler Jie Zheng, Steven R. Carlough, William J. Starke, Jeffrey A. Stuecheli 2022-03-08 $4,244,000
11157411 Information handling system with immediate scheduling of load operations Sanjeev Ghai, Guy L. Guthrie, William J. Starke 2021-10-26 $2,874,000
11042312 DRAM bank activation management Dharmesh Parikh, Venkata K. Tavva 2021-06-22 $6,016,000
11042325 Speculative bank activate dynamic random access memory (DRAM) scheduler Jie Zheng, Steven R. Carlough, William J. Starke, Jeffrey A. Stuecheli 2021-06-22 $6,016,000
10976939 Address/command chip synchronized autonomous data chip address sequencer for a distributed buffer memory system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben, Jie Zheng 2021-04-13 $3,936,000
10747442 Host controlled data chip address sequencing for a distributed memory buffer system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Warren E. Maule, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben +1 more 2020-08-18 $3,155,000
10740031 Interface scheduler for a distributed memory system Jie Zheng, Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff 2020-08-11 $2,122,000
10572168 DRAM bank activation management Dharmesh Parikh, Venkata K. Tavva 2020-02-25 $1,919,000
10534555 Host synchronized autonomous data chip address sequencer for a distributed buffer memory system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben, Jie Zheng 2020-01-14 $2,827,000
10489293 Information handling system with immediate scheduling of load operations Sanjeev Ghai, Guy L. Guthrie, William J. Starke 2019-11-26 $3,625,000
10489069 Address/command chip synchronized autonomous data chip address sequencer for a distributed buffer memory system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben, Jie Zheng 2019-11-26 $3,625,000
10395698 Address/command chip controlled data chip address sequencing for a distributed memory buffer system Steven R. Carlough, Susan M. Eickhoff, Warren E. Maule, Patrick J. Meaney, Gary A. Van Huben +1 more 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
10380040 Memory request scheduling to improve bank group utilization Venkata K. Tavva, Dharmesh Parikh 2019-08-13 $1,909,000
10353606 Partial data replay in a distributed memory buffer system Susan M. Eickhoff, Steven R. Carlough, Patrick J. Meaney, Jie Zheng, Gary A. Van Huben 2019-07-16 $4,107,000
10078461 Partial data replay in a distributed memory buffer system Susan M. Eickhoff, Steven R. Carlough, Patrick J. Meaney, Jie Zheng, Gary A. Van Huben 2018-09-18 $3,379,000
9684461 Dynamically adjusting read data return sizes based on memory interface bus utilization John Steven Dodson, Eric E. Retter, Jeffrey A. Stuecheli 2017-06-20 $2,315,000
9632954 Memory queue handling techniques for reducing impact of high-latency memory operations Mark A. Brittain, John Steven Dodson, Benjiman L. Goodman, Eric E. Retter, Jeffrey A. Stuecheli 2017-04-25 $1,937,000
9594647 Synchronization and order detection in a memory system Patrick J. Meaney, Glenn D. Gilda, Eric E. Retter, John Steven Dodson, Gary A. Van Huben +1 more 2017-03-14 $3,628,000
9495254 Synchronization and order detection in a memory system Patrick J. Meaney, Glenn D. Gilda, Eric E. Retter, John Steven Dodson, Gary A. Van Huben +1 more 2016-11-15 $2,170,000
9430418 Synchronization and order detection in a memory system Patrick J. Meaney, Glenn D. Gilda, Eric E. Retter, John Steven Dodson, Gary A. Van Huben +1 more 2016-08-30 $3,867,000