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Tim Niggemeier — 27 Patents

IBM: 23 patents #4,699 of 70,183Top 7%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
TLThomson Licensing: 2 patents #947 of 2,575Top 40%
Laatzen, DE: #1 of 78 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Tim Niggemeier has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in August 2017. Tim Niggemeier ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Tim Niggemeier in Laatzen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 72009: 3 patents20092011: 1 patents20112012: 3 patents20122013: 5 patents20132014: 3 patents20142015: 7 patents20152016: 3 patents20162017: 2 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9733945 Pipelining out-of-order instructions Harry Barowski 2017-08-15 $1,588,000
9658853 Techniques for increasing instruction issue rate and reducing latency in an out-of order processor Harry Barowski 2017-05-23 $8,404,000
9395996 Pipelining out-of-order instructions Harry Barowski 2016-07-19 $4,161,000
9337122 Transferring heat through an optical layer of integrated circuitry Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber +5 more 2016-05-10 $1,020,000
9268738 Three-dimensional permute unit for a single-instruction multiple-data processor Harry Barowski 2016-02-23 $5,149,000
9207995 Mechanism to speed-up multithreaded execution by register file write port reallocation Maarten J. Boersma, Markus Kaltenbach, Jens Leenstra, Philipp Oehler, Philipp Panitz 2015-12-08 $3,322,000
9164725 Apparatus and method for calculating an SHA-2 hash function in a general purpose processor Maarten J. Boersma, Markus Kaltenbach, Jens Leenstra, Philipp Oehler, Philipp Panitz 2015-10-20 $3,961,000
9064080 Transferring heat through an optical layer of integrated circuitry Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber +5 more 2015-06-23 $4,496,000
9058461 Transferring heat through an optical layer of integrated circuitry Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber +5 more 2015-06-16 $2,098,000
8989532 Integrated circuit package connected to an optical data transmission medium using a coolant Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber +5 more 2015-03-24 $3,177,000
8984314 Charge recycling between power domains of integrated circuits Harry Barowski, Joachim Keinert, Antje Mueller 2015-03-17 $4,972,000
8972758 Charge recycling between power domains of integrated circuits Harry Barowski, Joachim Keinert, Antje Mueller 2015-03-03 $3,627,000
8903882 Method and data processing unit for calculating at least one multiply-sum of two carry-less multiplications of two input operands, data processing program and computer program product Maarten J. Boersma, Markus Kaltenbach, Jens Leenstra, Philipp Oehler, Philipp Panitz 2014-12-02 $2,384,000
8806253 Power down of execution units for issued instruction accumulation when issue rate of instructions falls below threshold and at least two are independent Harry Barowski, Maarten J. Boersma, Gunnar Spiess 2014-08-12 $3,643,000
8805132 Integrated circuit package connected to a data transmission medium Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber +5 more 2014-08-12 $3,643,000
8578196 Zero indication forwarding for floating point unit power reduction Harry Barowski, Maarten J. Boersma, Silvia M. Mueller, Jochen Preiss 2013-11-05 $5,290,000
8476112 Optimized semiconductor packaging in a three-dimensional stack Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Bruno Michel +2 more 2013-07-02 $6,261,000
8427833 Thermal power plane for integrated circuits Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Bruno Michel +2 more 2013-04-23 $7,839,000
8421500 Integrated circuit with stacked computational units and configurable through vias Harry Barowski 2013-04-16 $3,567,000
8405998 Heat sink integrated power delivery and distribution for integrated circuits Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Bruno Michel +2 more 2013-03-26 $5,395,000
8253234 Optimized semiconductor packaging in a three-dimensional stack Harry Barowski, Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Bruno Michel +2 more 2012-08-28 $8,752,000
8255726 Zero indication forwarding for floating point unit power reduction Harry Barowski, Maarten J. Boersma, Silvia M. Mueller, Jochen Preiss 2012-08-28 $8,752,000
8245065 Power gating processor execution units when number of instructions issued per cycle falls below threshold and are independent until instruction queue is full Harry Barowski, Maarten J. Boersma, Gunnar Spiess 2012-08-14 $4,482,000
7873797 Memory controller Thomas Brune, Lothar Freissmann 2011-01-18 $90,000
7613866 Method for controlling access to a multibank memory Thomas Brune 2009-11-03 $441,000