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Stephen R. Van Doren — 90 Patents

Intel: 39 patents #900 of 30,777Top 3%
HP: 28 patents #452 of 16,619Top 3%
CCCompaq Computer: 13 patents #52 of 1,604Top 4%
DEDigital Equipment: 8 patents #114 of 2,100Top 6%
CGCompaq Information Technologies Group: 1 patents #84 of 407Top 25%
Portland, OR: #143 of 9,213 inventorsTop 2%
Oregon: #262 of 28,073 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #17,911 of 4,157,543Top 1%
90 Patents All Time
Stephen R. Van Doren has been granted 90 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. Stephen R. Van Doren ranks #17,911 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.43%). Patent records list Stephen R. Van Doren in Portland, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2021.peak 131996: 2 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 4 patents2000: 9 patents20002001: 6 patents2002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 5 patents2006: 7 patents20062007: 3 patents2008: 3 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2012: 3 patents2013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 3 patents2021: 13 patents20212022: 8 patents2023: 5 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–75 of 90 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7203775 System and method for avoiding deadlock Gregory Edward Tierney 2007-04-10 $18,031,000
7177987 System and method for responses between different cache coherency protocols Gregory Edward Tierney, Simon C. Steely, Jr. 2007-02-13 $30,121,000
7174431 Mechanism for resolving ambiguous invalidates in a computer system Gregory Edward Tierney 2007-02-06 $32,380,000
7149852 System and method for blocking data responses Gregory Edward Tierney, Simon C. Steely, Jr. 2006-12-12 $8,393,000
7143245 System and method for read migratory optimization in a cache coherency protocol Gregory Edward Tierney, Simon C. Steely, Jr. 2006-11-28 $8,530,000
7051163 Directory structure permitting efficient write-backs in a shared memory computer system Gregory Edward Tierney 2006-05-23 $9,832,000
7024520 System and method enabling efficient cache line reuse in a computer system Gregory Edward Tierney 2006-04-04 $15,519,000
7003635 Generalized active inheritance consistency mechanism having linked writes 2006-02-21 $13,753,000
7000080 Channel-based late race resolution mechanism for a computer system Gregory Edward Tierney 2006-02-14 $14,109,000
6990559 Mechanism for resolving ambiguous invalidates in a computer system Gregory Edward Tierney 2006-01-24 $11,829,000
6961825 Cache coherency mechanism using arbitration masks Simon C. Steely, Jr., Madhumitra Sharma 2005-11-01 $12,111,000
6904465 Low latency inter-reference ordering in a multiple processor system employing a multiple-level inter-node switch Simon C. Steely, Jr., Madhumitra Sharma 2005-06-07 $9,928,000
6898676 Computer system supporting both dirty-shared and non-dirty-shared data processing entities Gregory Edward Tierney 2005-05-24 $8,130,000
6895476 Retry-based late race resolution mechanism for a computer system Gregory Edward Tierney 2005-05-17 $10,116,000
6892290 Linked-list early race resolution mechanism 2005-05-10 $10,962,000
6801986 Livelock prevention by delaying surrender of ownership upon intervening ownership request during load locked / store conditional atomic memory operation Simon C. Steely, Jr., Madhumitra Sharma 2004-10-05 $9,303,000
6636948 Method and system for a processor to gain assured ownership of an up-to-date copy of data Simon C. Steely, Jr., Madhu Sharna 2003-10-21 $19,669,000
6353876 Cache memory exchange optimized memory organization for a computer system Paul M. Goodwin 2002-03-05 $54,686,000
6286090 Mechanism for selectively imposing interference order between page-table fetches and corresponding data fetches Simon C. Steely, Jr., Madhumitra Sharma, Kourosh Gharachorloo 2001-09-04 $45,413,000
6256694 Distributed early arbitration David Fenwick, Denis Foley 2001-07-03 $62,722,000
6249846 Distributed data dependency stall mechanism Rahul Razdan 2001-06-19 $27,502,000
6209065 Mechanism for optimizing generation of commit-signals in a distributed shared-memory system Simon C. Steely, Jr., Kourosh Gharachorloo, Madhumitra Sharma 2001-03-27 $46,767,000
6202126 Victimization of clean data blocks Simon C. Steely, Jr., Madhumitra Sharma 2001-03-13 $50,290,000
6185654 Phantom resource memory address mapping system 2001-02-06 $51,134,000
6125429 Cache memory exchange optimized memory organization for a computer system Paul M. Goodwin 2000-09-26 $63,796,000