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Kirk D. Brannock — 36 Patents

Intel: 33 patents #1,107 of 30,777Top 4%
MCMcafee: 2 patents #495 of 1,127Top 45%
Hillsboro, OR: #107 of 2,365 inventorsTop 5%
Oregon: #1,071 of 28,073 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Kirk D. Brannock has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2023. Kirk D. Brannock ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Kirk D. Brannock in Hillsboro, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2010.peak 42003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 4 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11783064 Techniques to provide hardware enforced protection environment for a system management mode Barry E. Huntley 2023-10-10 $20,947,000
11199980 Techniques to provide run-time protections using immutable regions of memory Barry E. Huntley 2021-12-14 $41,312,000
10776283 Techniques to provide a secure system management mode Barry E. Huntley, Vincent J. Zimmer 2020-09-15 $34,212,000
10769269 Method and apparatus to gather platform configuration profile in a trustworthy manner 2020-09-08 $26,363,000
10192054 Automatic pairing of IO devices with hardware secure elements Shanwei Cen 2019-01-29 $23,219,000
10193858 Attestation device custody transfer protocol Jesse Walker, Howard C. Herbert, Geoffrey Cooper, David A. deVries, David M. Amols +2 more 2019-01-29
10146657 Initialization trace of a computing device Robert C. Swanson, C. Brendan S. Traw, Vincent J. Zimmer, Mallik Bulusu, John R. Lindsley +8 more 2018-12-04 $23,085,000
10042571 Techniques to provide run-time protections using immutable regions of memory Barry E. Huntley 2018-08-07 $25,284,000
10044696 Simplified sensor integrity Jesse Walker, Howard C. Herbert, Stephen H. Price, Geoffrey Cooper, David A. deVries +2 more 2018-08-07
9946875 Detection of return oriented programming attacks Stephen A. Fischer, Kevin C. Gotze, Yuriy Bulygin 2018-04-17 $23,996,000
9582663 Detection of return oriented programming attacks Stephen A. Fischer, Kevin C. Gotze, Yuriy Bulygin 2017-02-28 $9,011,000
9251348 Detection of return oriented programming attacks Stephen A. Fischer, Kevin C. Gotze, Yuriy Bulygin 2016-02-02 $9,951,000
9223979 Detection of return oriented programming attacks Stephen A. Fischer, Kevin C. Gotze, Yuriy Bulygin 2015-12-29 $8,962,000
9092632 Platform firmware armoring technology Allen R. Wishman, Sergiu D. Ghetie, Michael Neve de Mevergnies, Ulhas Warrier, Adil Karrar +1 more 2015-07-28 $15,934,000
9003236 System and method for correct execution of software based on baseline and real time information David W. Grawrock, Jesse Walker, Yuriy Bulygin, Matthew King 2015-04-07 $25,687,000
8839226 System for atomically updating a plurality of files William A. Stevens 2014-09-16 $19,366,000
8522322 Platform firmware armoring technology Allen R. Wishman, Sergiu D. Ghetie, Michael Neve de Mevergnies, Ulhas Warrier, Adil Karrar +1 more 2013-08-27 $11,735,000
8250374 Method and apparatus for verifying authenticity of initial boot code Antonio S. Cheng 2012-08-21 $17,627,000
8086833 Method and system for linking firmware modules in a pre-memory execution environment William A. Stevens, Andrew J. Fish, Robert P. Hale, Ramamurthy Krithivas 2011-12-27 $23,836,000
8086837 Method and apparatus to store initialization and configuration information John I. Garney, Richard Coulson 2011-12-27 $23,836,000
8028282 System for atomically updating a plurality of files William A. Stevens 2011-09-27 $33,028,000
7937701 ACPI communication between virtual machine monitor and policy virtual machine via mailbox Michael Kinney 2011-05-03 $28,064,000
7844809 Verifying a trusted SMI handler David W. Grawrock 2010-11-30 $13,201,000
7818496 Processor system management mode caching Barnes Cooper, Isaac W. Oram, Robert E. Gough 2010-10-19 $13,567,000
7765392 Method and apparatus for establishing processor as core root of trust for measurement Antonio S. Cheng 2010-07-27 $20,041,000