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Norman K. Chen — 12 Patents

NVIDIA: 11 patents #657 of 7,811Top 9%
Sunnyvale, CA: #2,336 of 14,302 inventorsTop 20%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Norman K. Chen has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in November 2025. Norman K. Chen ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Norman K. Chen in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2012.peak 42009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 4 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12461450 OPC modeling method YiQiang Pan, Yiwei WANG, Keong Jin Kim, Eric S. Parent 2025-11-04
8687503 Technique for identifying a failed network interface card within a team of network interface cards Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Thomas A. Maufer +1 more 2014-04-01 $8,540,000
8432788 Intelligent failback in a load-balanced networking environment Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda 2013-04-30 $8,372,000
8300647 Intelligent load balancing and failover of network traffic Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda 2012-10-30
8284782 System and method for avoiding ARP cache pollution Thomas A. Maufer, Ayaz Abdulla, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalinl Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda +1 more 2012-10-09 $7,826,000
8284783 System and method for avoiding neighbor cache pollution Thomas A. Maufer, Ayaz Abdulla, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda +1 more 2012-10-09 $7,826,000
8134928 Technique for identifying a failed network interface card within a team of network interface cards Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Thomas A. Maufer +1 more 2012-03-13 $7,465,000
7995465 Intelligent load balancing and failover of network traffic Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda 2011-08-09 $11,894,000
7792018 Intelligent load balancing and failover of network traffic Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda 2010-09-07 $5,417,000
7760619 Intelligent failover in a load-balanced networking environment Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda 2010-07-20 $8,420,000
7756012 Intelligent failover in a load-balanced network environment Ayaz Abdulla, Anand Rajagopalan, Ashutosh K. Jha, Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Sameer Nanda 2010-07-13 $5,771,000
7545741 Technique for identifying a failed network interface card within a team of network interface cards Hemamalini Manickavasagam, Ayaz Abdulla, Ashutosh K. Jha, Thomas A. Maufer, Sameer Nanda +1 more 2009-06-09 $15,975,000