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Robert F. Krick — 34 Patents

Intel: 25 patents #1,588 of 30,777Top 6%
HP: 4 patents #4,645 of 16,619Top 30%
AMD: 4 patents #2,789 of 9,280Top 35%
DUDuke University: 1 patents #1,064 of 2,315Top 50%
Durham, NC: #114 of 4,103 inventorsTop 3%
North Carolina: #1,095 of 45,564 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Robert F. Krick has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in September 2015. Robert F. Krick ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Robert F. Krick in Durham, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2002.peak 51991: 1 patents19911996: 1 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 2 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 5 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 3 patents2008: 2 patents20082010: 2 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9146869 State encoding for cache lines 2015-09-29 $1,017,000
9058269 Method and apparatus including a probe filter for shared caches utilizing inclusion bits and a victim probe bit John M. King, Tarun Nakra 2015-06-16 $1,801,000
8924817 Method and apparatus for calculating error correction codes for selective data updates 2014-12-30 $1,485,000
8751745 Method for concurrent flush of L1 and L2 caches David A. Kaplan 2014-06-10 $3,265,000
7856633 LRU cache replacement for a partitioned set associative cache Chan Woo Lee, Glenn J. Hinton 2010-12-21 $32,423,000
7730281 System and method for storing immediate data Alan B. Kyker, Per Hammarlund, Chan Woo Lee, Hitesh Ahuja, William C. Alexander +1 more 2010-06-01 $13,475,000
7334115 Detection, recovery and prevention of bogus branches Reynold V. D'Sa, Alan B. Kyker, Slade Morgan, Rebecca E. Hebda, Richard A. Weier 2008-02-19 $15,849,000
7321963 System and method for storing immediate data Alan B. Kyker, Per Hammarlund, Chan Woo Lee, Hitesh Ahuja, William C. Alexander +1 more 2008-01-22 $26,995,000
7149883 Method and apparatus selectively to advance a write pointer for a queue based on the indicated validity or invalidity of an instruction stored within the queue Per Hammarlund 2006-12-12 $16,980,000
7114057 System and method for storing immediate data Alan B. Kyker, Per Hammarlund, Chan Woo Lee, Hitesh Ahuja, William C. Alexander +1 more 2006-09-26 $21,238,000
7032077 Multiple cache coherency Paul L. Rogers, Vipul Gandhi 2006-04-18 $10,241,000
6950906 System for and method of operating a cache Duane Wiens 2005-09-27 $16,074,000
6918021 System of and method for flow control within a tag pipeline David B. Johnson, Paul L. Rogers 2005-07-12 $11,349,000
6915396 Fast priority determination circuit with rotating priority Duane Wiens 2005-07-05 $10,631,000
6711669 System and method for storing immediate data Alan B. Kyker, Per Hammarlund, Chan Woo Lee, Hitesh Ahuja, William C. Alexander +1 more 2004-03-23 $37,745,000
6578138 System and method for unrolling loops in a trace cache Alan B. Kyker 2003-06-10 $73,878,000
6493797 Multi-tag system and method for cache read/write Chan Woo Lee, Richard A. Weier 2002-12-10 $69,846,000
6493821 Recovery from writeback stage event signal or micro-branch misprediction using instruction sequence number indexed state information table Reynold V. D'Sa, Rebecca E. Hebda, Alan B. Kyker 2002-12-10 $69,846,000
6457119 Processor instruction pipeline with error detection scheme Darrell D. Boggs, Chan Woo Lee 2002-09-24 $57,480,000
6442674 Method and system for bypassing a fill buffer located along a first instruction path Chan Woo Lee, Hitesh Ahuja 2002-08-27 $48,184,000
6338132 System and method for storing immediate data Alan B. Kyker, Per Hammarlund, Chan Woo Lee, Hitesh Ahuja, William C. Alexander +1 more 2002-01-08 $702,554,000
6170038 Trace based instruction caching Glenn J. Hinton, Michael D. Upton, David J. Sager, Chan Woo Lee 2001-01-02 $205,888,000
6035315 Floating point power conservation 2000-03-07 $430,213,000
6018786 Trace based instruction caching Glenn J. Hinton, Michael D. Upton, David J. Sager, Chan Woo Lee 2000-01-25 $365,842,000
6014742 Trace branch prediction unit Chan Woo Lee, Reynold V. D'Sa 2000-01-11 $302,834,000