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Christopher J. Hughes — 189 Patents

Intel: 188 patents #68 of 30,777Top 1%
TPThorn Emi Plc: 1 patents #52 of 135Top 40%
Santa Clara, CA: #16 of 9,301 inventorsTop 1%
California: #631 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #3,834 of 4,157,543Top 1%
189 Patents All Time
Christopher J. Hughes has been granted 189 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in September 2025. Christopher J. Hughes ranks #3,834 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.09%). Patent records list Christopher J. Hughes in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 22 patents in 2019.peak 221989: 1 patents19892006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 16 patents20162017: 19 patents2018: 16 patents20182019: 22 patents2020: 12 patents20202021: 18 patents2022: 16 patents20222023: 8 patents2024: 17 patents20242025: 15 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 189 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12423102 Instructions to convert from FP16 to BF8 Alexander Heinecke, Naveen Mellempudi, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Evangelos Georganas +3 more 2025-09-23
12417100 Instructions for structured-sparse tile matrix FMA Menachem Adelman, Amit Gradstein, Alexander Heinecke, Naveen Mellempudi, Shahar Mizrahi +7 more 2025-09-16
12405770 Matrix transpose and multiply Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Barukh Ziv, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich +5 more 2025-09-02
12379927 BFLOAT16 scale and/or reduce instructions Menachem Adelman, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein +4 more 2025-08-05
12367045 Instructions to convert from FP16 to BF8 Alexander Heinecke, Naveen Mellempudi, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Evangelos Georganas +3 more 2025-07-22
12360774 Coalescing adjacent gather/scatter operations Andrew T. Forsyth, Brian J. Hickmann, Jonathan C. Hall 2025-07-15
12353878 Apparatuses, methods, and systems for instructions for matrix multiplication instructions Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich +4 more 2025-07-08
12332796 Dynamic cache coherence protocol based on runtime interconnect utilization Keqiang Wu, Lingxiang Xiang, Heidi Pan, Zhe Wang 2025-06-17
12287843 Systems and methods of instructions to accelerate multiplication of sparse matrices using bitmasks that identify non-zero elements Dan Baum, Chen Koren, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Michael Espig, Raanan Sade +3 more 2025-04-29
12277419 Apparatuses, methods, and systems for instructions to convert 16-bit floating-point formats Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Menachem Adelman, Evangelos Georganas +3 more 2025-04-15
12265826 Systems for performing instructions to quickly convert and use tiles as 1D vectors Bret L. Toll, Dan Baum, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine +2 more 2025-04-01
12229554 BFLOAT16 fused multiply instructions Alexander Heinecke, Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein +4 more 2025-02-18
12216579 Adaptive remote atomics Carl J. Beckmann, Samantika S. Sury, Lingxiang Xiang, Rahul Agrawal 2025-02-04
12210446 Inter-cluster shared data management in sub-NUMA cluster Zhe Wang, Lingxiang Xiang 2025-01-28
12190118 Data locality enhancement for graphics processing units Prasoonkumar Surti, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Adam T. Lake, Jill MacDonald Boyce, Subramaniam Maiyuran +6 more 2025-01-07
12175246 Systems and methods for performing matrix compress and decompress instructions Dan Baum, Michael Espig, James D. Guilford, Wajdi K. Feghali, Raanan Sade +7 more 2024-12-24 $17,261,000
12135968 Instructions to convert from FP16 to BF8 Alexander Heinecke, Naveen Mellempudi, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Evangelos Georganas +3 more 2024-11-05 $48,202,000
12130740 Apparatuses and methods for a processor architecture Jason W. Brandt, Robert S. Chappell, Jesus Corbal, Edward T. Grochowski, Stephen H. Gunther +9 more 2024-10-29 $18,861,000
12112167 Matrix data scatter and gather between rows and irregularly spaced memory locations Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Menachem Adelman, Evangelos Georganas, Mark J. Charney +2 more 2024-10-08 $19,971,000
12106104 Processor instructions for data compression and decompression Zhe Wang, Alaa R. Alameldeen 2024-10-01 $20,560,000
12056489 Apparatuses, methods, and systems for 8-bit floating-point matrix dot product instructions Naveen Mellempudi, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Evangelos Georganas +3 more 2024-08-06 $17,070,000
12020028 Apparatuses, methods, and systems for 8-bit floating-point matrix dot product instructions Naveen Mellempudi, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Evangelos Georganas +3 more 2024-06-25 $22,163,000
11989555 Instructions for remote atomic operations Doddaballapur N. Jayasimha, Jonas Svennebring, Samantika S. Sury, Jong Soo Park, Lingxiang Xiang 2024-05-21 $18,840,000
11972230 Matrix transpose and multiply Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Barukh Ziv, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich +5 more 2024-04-30 $26,151,000
11954490 Systems and methods for performing instructions to transform matrices into row-interleaved format Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Bret L. Toll, Alexander Heinecke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall +1 more 2024-04-09 $27,197,000