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Eric Distefano — 47 Patents

Intel: 46 patents #723 of 30,777Top 3%
TRTahoe Research: 1 patents #81 of 215Top 40%
Livermore, CA: #36 of 2,185 inventorsTop 2%
California: #8,880 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #59,703 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47 Patents All Time
Eric Distefano has been granted 47 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in July 2025. Eric Distefano ranks #59,703 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Eric Distefano in Livermore, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12360586 Processor having accelerated user responsiveness in constrained environment Efraim Rotem, Doron Rajwan, Eliezer Weissmann, Nir Rosenzweig, Ishmael F. Santos +1 more 2025-07-15
11435816 Processor having accelerated user responsiveness in constrained environment Efraim Rotem, Doron Rajwan, Eliezer Weissmann, Nir Rosenzweig, Ishmael F. Santos +1 more 2022-09-06 $12,766,000
11301011 Method and apparatus for configurable thermal management Ketan R. Shah, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, James G. Hermerding, II 2022-04-12 $16,909,000
10990161 Processor having accelerated user responsiveness in constrained environment Efraim Rotem, Doron Rajwan, Eliezer Weissmann, Nir Rosenzweig, Ishmael F. Santos +1 more 2021-04-27 $44,593,000
10488899 Method and apparatus for configurable thermal management Ketan R. Shah, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, James G. Hermerding, II 2019-11-26 $25,149,000
10289514 Apparatus and method for a user configurable reliability control loop Dorit Shapira, Krishnakanth V. Sistla, Efraim Rotem, James G. Hermerding, II, Esfir Natanzon 2019-05-14 $24,469,000
10281975 Processor having accelerated user responsiveness in constrained environment Efraim Rotem, Doron Rajwan, Eliezer Weissmann, Nir Rosenzweig, Ishmael F. Santos +1 more 2019-05-07 $24,403,000
9898066 Method and apparatus to configure thermal design power in a microprocessor Guy M. Therien, Vasudevan Srinivasan, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, Venkatesh Ramani, Ryan D. Wells +3 more 2018-02-20 $17,556,000
9898067 Method and apparatus to configure thermal design power in a microprocessor Guy M. Therien, Vasudevan Srinivasan, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, Venkatesh Ramani, Ryan D. Wells +3 more 2018-02-20 $17,556,000
9710030 Method and apparatus for configurable thermal management Ketan R. Shah, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, James G. Hermerding, II 2017-07-18 $6,909,000
9465418 Method and apparatus for configurable thermal management Ketan R. Shah, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, James G. Hermerding, II 2016-10-11 $13,479,000
9176550 Thermally downward scalable system Biswajit Sur, James G. Hermerding, II, Eugene P. Matter, John P. Wallace, Guy M. Therien 2015-11-03 $14,434,000
9052901 Method, apparatus, and system for energy efficiency and energy conservation including configurable maximum processor current Ketan R. Shah, Stephen H. Gunther, Jeremy J. Shrall 2015-06-09 $16,785,000
9032223 Techniques to manage operational parameters for a processor Efraim Rotem, Jim Hermerding, Ronny Korner, Yuval Yosef 2015-05-12 $21,151,000
8984305 Method and apparatus to configure thermal design power in a microprocessor Guy M. Therien, Vasudevan Srinivasan, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, Venkatesh Ramani, Ryan D. Wells +3 more 2015-03-17 $11,864,000
8943336 Method and apparatus for configurable thermal management Ketan R. Shah, Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi, James G. Hermerding, II 2015-01-27 $21,987,000
7878016 Device and method for on-die temperature measurement Efraim Rotem, Jim Hermerding, Barnes Cooper 2011-02-01 $17,150,000
7596464 Determining the thermal influence of components within a system and usage of a matrix for power and thermal management Jim Hermerding, Barnes Cooper, Steve Frayne, Jr., Sridhar Machiroutu 2009-09-29 $24,442,000
7360945 Apparatus for determining temperature of a portable computer system Jim Kardach, David Williams, Marlon Cardenas, Jim Hermerding 2008-04-22 $13,499,000
7281388 Apparatus to use a refrigerator in mobile computing device Himanshu Pokhama, Rajiv K. Mongia 2007-10-16 $25,589,000
7272006 IC coolant microchannel assembly with integrated attachment hardware Rajiv K. Mongia, Himanshu Pokharna, Shawn McEuen, Brian Wilk 2007-09-18 $14,997,000
7269005 Pumped loop cooling with remote heat exchanger and display cooling Himanshu Pokharna 2007-09-11 $15,808,000
7259965 Integrated circuit coolant microchannel assembly with targeted channel configuration Je-Young Chang, Ioan Sauciuc, Chuan Hu, Chia-Pin Chiu, Gregory M. Chrysler +3 more 2007-08-21 $15,364,000
7243497 Apparatus to use a refrigerator in mobile computing device Rajiv K. Mongia, Himanshu Pokhama 2007-07-17 $13,694,000
7193316 Integrated circuit coolant microchannel with movable portion Rajiv K. Mongia, Himanshu Pokharna 2007-03-20 $12,397,000