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Brian L. Smith — 56 Patents

Oracle: 27 patents #271 of 14,854Top 2%
NVIDIA: 13 patents #521 of 7,811Top 7%
IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
POPpg Industries Ohio: 4 patents #321 of 1,316Top 25%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
OPOpentv: 1 patents #107 of 164Top 70%
ECEco-Block: 1 patents #3 of 4Top 75%
Santa Clara, CA: #172 of 9,301 inventorsTop 2%
California: #6,620 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Brian L. Smith has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Oracle. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2024. Brian L. Smith ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Brian L. Smith in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2016.peak 131998: 1 patents19982002: 1 patents2003: 7 patents20032004: 5 patents2005: 7 patents20052006: 5 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 1 patents2012: 3 patents20122014: 3 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 13 patents2022: 3 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12032840 System level hardware mechanisms for dynamic assist control Anand Shanmugam Sundararajan, Narayan Kulshrestha, Ka Yun Lee, Madhukiran V. Swarna, Ramachandiran V +1 more 2024-07-09 $3,816,060,000
11494370 Hardware-controlled updating of a physical operating parameter for in-field fault detection Sreedhar Narayanaswamy, Shantanu Sarangi, Hemalkumar Chandrakant Doshi, Hari U. Krishnan, Gunaseelan Ponnuvel 2022-11-08 $577,741,000
11276648 Protecting chips from electromagnetic pulse attacks using an antenna Chinmay Apte, Tezaswi Raja, Roman Surgutchik 2022-03-15 $2,847,847,000
11231760 Techniques for accurately determining the temperature at various locations of an operating integrated circuit Jun Gu, Tao Li, Chad Plummer 2022-01-25 $1,683,516,000
9494641 Degradation detector and method of detecting the aging of an integrated circuit Stephen Felix, Tezaswi Raja, Roman Surgutchik 2016-11-15 $56,169,000
9479001 Technique for supplying power to a load via voltage control and current control modes of operation Rene Pierre Marchand, Thomas Dean Skelton, Matthew R. Longnecker 2016-10-25 $29,021,000
9471315 Run-time instrumentation reporting Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marcel Mitran, Chung-Lung K. Shum 2016-10-18 $1,445,000
9459873 Run-time instrumentation monitoring of processor characteristics Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marcel Mitran, Damian L. Osisek, Chung-Lung K. Shum +1 more 2016-10-04 $3,433,000
9454462 Run-time instrumentation monitoring for processor characteristic changes Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marcel Mitran, Damian L. Osisek, Chung-Lung K. Shum +1 more 2016-09-27 $4,099,000
9423846 Powered ring to maintain IO state independent of the core of an integrated circuit device Ewa M. Kubalska 2016-08-23 $24,893,000
9411390 Integrated circuit device having power domains and partitions based on use case power optimization Parthasarathy Sriram, Stephane Le Provost 2016-08-09 $23,908,000
9395799 Power management techniques for USB interfaces Eric Masson, Matthew R. Longnecker, Hemalkumar Chandrkant Doshi 2016-07-19 $28,580,000
9389622 Voltage optimization circuit and managing voltage margins of an integrated circuit Stephen Felix, Jesse Max Guss, Tezaswi Raja 2016-07-12 $20,637,000
9280346 Run-time instrumentation reporting Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marcel Mitran, Chung-Lung K. Shum 2016-03-08 $4,405,000
9280448 Controlling operation of a run-time instrumentation facility from a lesser-privileged state Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marcel Mitran, Chung-Lung K. Shum, Timothy J. Slegel +1 more 2016-03-08 $4,405,000
9250903 Determining the status of run-time-instrumentation controls Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Chung-Lung K. Shum 2016-02-02 $1,325,000
9250902 Determining the status of run-time-instrumentation controls Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Chung-Lung K. Shum 2016-02-02 $1,325,000
9182768 Voltage optimization circuit and managing voltage margins of an integrated circuit Stephen Felix, Jesse Max Guss, Tezaswi Raja 2015-11-10 $11,691,000
9158660 Controlling operation of a run-time instrumentation facility Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marcel Mitran, Chung-Lung K. Shum, Timothy J. Slegel +1 more 2015-10-13 $3,494,000
8904954 Method of applying an electric conductive layer to selected portions of a mounting frame Mitchell V. Bruce, Thomas R. Scarniac 2014-12-09 $34,580,000
8889218 Foam window mount having an electric conductive layer over a light blocking layer Joseph Cole Eberle, Jeffrey B. Masiwchuk, Mitchell V. Bruce, Thomas R. Scarniac 2014-11-18 $25,518,000
8793091 System and method for integrated circuit calibration Ting Ku, Shifeng Yu 2014-07-29 $46,690,000
8327173 Integrated circuit device core power down independent of peripheral device operation Neil Hendin, Zahid Najam, Stephane Le Provost 2012-12-04 $7,103,000
8313817 Method of applying an electric conductive layer to selected portions of a mounting frame Mitchell V. Bruce, Thomas R. Scarniac 2012-11-20 $75,249,000
8105645 Method of applying an electric conductive layer to selected portions of a mounting frame Mitchell V. Bruce, Thomas R. Scarniac 2012-01-31 $14,713,000