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Frank S. Smith — 9 Patents

Intel: 8 patents #4,914 of 30,777Top 20%
Chandler, AZ: #636 of 3,331 inventorsTop 20%
Arizona: #4,088 of 32,909 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Frank S. Smith has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in April 2002. Frank S. Smith ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Frank S. Smith in Chandler, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1995.peak 31991: 1 patents19911993: 2 patents19931994: 2 patents19941995: 3 patents19952002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6378061 Apparatus for issuing instructions and reissuing a previous instructions by recirculating using the delay circuit Adrian Carbine, Glenn J. Hinton 2002-04-23 $65,430,000
5459845 Instruction pipeline sequencer in which state information of an instruction travels through pipe stages until the instruction execution is completed Truong-Thao Nguyen 1995-10-17 $88,002,000
5454089 Branch look ahead adder for use in an instruction pipeline sequencer with multiple instruction decoding Truong-Thao Nguyen 1995-09-26 $193,160,000
5428811 Interface between a register file which arbitrates between a number of single cycle and multiple cycle functional units Glenn J. Hinton, Randy Steck 1995-06-27 $54,369,000
5313605 High bandwith output hierarchical memory store including a cache, fetch buffer and ROM Scott Huck, Sunil Shenoy 1994-05-17 $92,612,000
H1291 Microprocessor in which multiple instructions are executed in one clock Glenn J. Hinton 1994-02-01
5222244 Method of modifying a microinstruction with operands specified by an instruction held in an alias register Adrian Carbine 1993-06-22 $37,021,000
5185872 System for executing different cycle instructions by selectively bypassing scoreboard register and canceling the execution of conditionally issued instruction if needed resources are busy James M. Arnold, Glenn J. Hinton 1993-02-09 $205,519,000
5023844 Six-way access ported RAM array cell James M. Arnold, Glenn J. Hinton 1991-06-11 $43,430,000