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Robert C. Keller — 26 Patents

NVIDIA: 10 patents #743 of 7,811Top 10%
TITexas Instruments: 9 patents #1,623 of 12,488Top 15%
ExxonMobil: 3 patents #3,063 of 10,161Top 35%
Google: 1 patents #14,887 of 22,993Top 65%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
CCCarlisle Companies: 1 patents #11 of 23Top 50%
Tully, NY: #2 of 35 inventorsTop 6%
New York: #4,926 of 115,490 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Robert C. Keller has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in February 2019. Robert C. Keller ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Robert C. Keller in Tully, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10194600 4 stage 11 component hydroponics plant collar insert system 2019-02-05
8782023 Versioned database cache Monica Chawathe, Namit Sikka, Ashish Gupta, Fenglin Liao, Haifeng Jiang 2014-07-15 $11,794,000
8537167 Method and system for using bundle decoders in a processing pipeline Richard A. Silkebakken, Matthew Regan 2013-09-17 $3,489,000
8504794 Override system and method for memory access management David B. Glasco, John S. Montrym, Lingfeng Yuan 2013-08-06 $5,004,000
8127181 Hardware warning protocol for processing units Michael C. Shebanow, John S. Montrym, Richard A. Silkebakken 2012-02-28 $10,154,000
8019978 Unit status reporting protocol Michael C. Shebanow, Richard A. Silkebakken 2011-09-13 $19,562,000
7937710 Context switch signaling method and system Richard A. Silkebakken, Benjamin J. Garlick 2011-05-03 $24,940,000
7916146 Halt context switching method and system Michael C. Shebanow, Makarand Dharmapurikar 2011-03-29 $12,889,000
7711990 Apparatus and method for debugging a graphics processing unit in response to a debug instruction John R. Nickolls, Roger L. Allen, Brian Keith Cabral, Brett W. Coon 2010-05-04 $16,517,000
7600155 Apparatus and method for monitoring and debugging a graphics processing unit John R. Nickolls, Roger L. Allen, Brian Keith Cabral, Brett W. Coon 2009-10-06 $15,771,000
7512773 Context switching using halt sequencing protocol Michael C. Shebanow, Richard A. Silkebakken, Benjamin J. Garlick 2009-03-31 $16,068,000
7369135 Memory management system having a forward progress bit Karim M. Abdalla 2008-05-06 $11,930,000
7203425 Optical wireless link Jose Melendez 2007-04-10 $13,257,000
7149427 Cooperating array of micromirror devices for wireless optical communication Andrew Dewa 2006-12-12 $16,718,000
7035546 Optical wireless multiport hub Jose Melendez 2006-04-25 $12,440,000
6813446 System for acquiring and maintaining reliable optical wireless links Jose Melendez 2004-11-02 $17,637,000
6714336 Packaged micromirror assembly with in-package mirror position feedback John W. Orcutt, Jose Melendez, Dwight U. Bartholomew 2004-03-30 $22,554,000
6697184 Method and system for steering a collimated light beam with a pivotable mirror Luisa Angelica Zepeda 2004-02-24 $30,751,000
6690888 Method for establishing and maintaining optical, open-air communications link Jose Melendez 2004-02-10 $25,123,000
5912456 Integrally formed surface plasmon resonance sensor Jose Melendez, Richard A. Carr 1999-06-15 $34,274,000
5898503 Surface plasmon resonance sensor with interchangeable optical element Jose Melendez, Richard A. Carr 1999-04-27 $90,559,000
5428099 Method to control carbon black distribution in elastomer blends Fred Morrar, Laszlo L. Ban, Walter G. Funk, Edward N. Kresge, Hsien-Chang Wang +1 more 1995-06-27 $61,626,000
5246778 Hose composition Bernard J. Costemalle, Donald Frederick Kruse, James V. Fusco, Marcel Steurs 1993-09-21 $142,196,000
5021509 Butyl rubber compositions having improved adhesion to polyester Marc R. Kuhnhein 1991-06-04 $48,175,000
D296202 Vehicle tire tread 1988-06-14