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William T. Futral — 31 Patents

Intel: 29 patents #1,312 of 30,777Top 5%
UNUngermann-Bass: 2 patents #3 of 10Top 30%
Hillsboro, OR: #127 of 2,365 inventorsTop 6%
Oregon: #1,271 of 28,073 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
William T. Futral has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2017. William T. Futral ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list William T. Futral in Hillsboro, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 2 patents2000: 5 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 3 patents20042006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9628277 Methods, systems and apparatus to self authorize platform code 2017-04-18 $8,310,000
9152793 Methods, systems and apparatus to self authorize platform code 2015-10-06 $14,030,000
8904162 Methods and apparatus for performing secure BIOS upgrade Thanunathan Rangarajan, Raghavendra Y K 2014-12-02 $19,830,000
8468278 Methods and apparatuses for flushing write-combined data from a buffer Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Siva Balasubramanian, Sujoy Sen, Gregory D. Cummings, Kenneth C. Creta +1 more 2013-06-18 $21,688,000
8347011 Stream priority Kenneth C. Creta, Sujoy Sen, Gregory D. Cummings, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan 2013-01-01
8205026 Stream priority Kenneth C. Creta, Sujoy Sen, Gregory D. Cummings, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan 2012-06-19 $20,138,000
8006017 Stream priority Kenneth C. Creta, Sujoy Sen, Gregory D. Cummings, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan 2011-08-23 $17,183,000
7363393 Chipset feature detection and configuration by an I/O device Kenneth C. Creta, Sujoy Sen, Gregory D. Cummings, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan 2008-04-22 $13,499,000
7353301 Methodology and apparatus for implementing write combining Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Siva Balasubramanian, Sujoy Sen, Gregory D. Cummings, Kenneth C. Creta +1 more 2008-04-01 $16,890,000
7287101 Direct memory access using memory descriptor list Jie Ni 2007-10-23 $18,637,000
7120708 Readdressable virtual DMA control and status registers Jie Ni 2006-10-10 $14,351,000
7007126 Accessing a primary bus messaging unit from a secondary bus through a PCI bridge Byron R. Gillespie, Barry R. Davis 2006-02-28 $11,249,000
6772257 Method and apparatus for processing interrupts 2004-08-03 $15,005,000
6747949 Register based remote data flow control 2004-06-08 $20,315,000
6708241 Method and apparatus for processing interrupts 2004-03-16 $26,262,000
6615282 Adaptive messaging 2003-09-02 $46,907,000
6418479 I/O pass through for a distributed computer system Ahmet D. Houssein, Paul Grun 2002-07-09 $52,281,000
6317799 Destination controlled remote DMA engine D. Michael Bell 2001-11-13 $122,229,000
6212543 Asymmetric write-only message queuing architecture 2001-04-03 $111,247,000
6170025 Distributed computer system supporting remote interrupts and lock mechanism Ken Drottar, David S. Dunning 2001-01-02 $205,888,000
6134619 Method and apparatus for transporting messages between processors in a multiple processor system Elliot Garbus, Barry R. Davis 2000-10-17 $234,968,000
6112263 Method for multiple independent processes controlling access to I/O devices in a computer system 2000-08-29 $206,201,000
6081851 Method and apparatus for programming a remote DMA engine residing on a first bus from a destination residing on a second bus D. Michael Bell 2000-06-27 $298,468,000
6081848 Striping packets of data across multiple virtual channels Paul Grun 2000-06-27 $298,468,000
6044415 System for transferring I/O data between an I/O device and an application program's memory in accordance with a request directly over a virtual connection Greg Regnier, Stanley S. Amway, III 2000-03-28 $241,499,000