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Brian Michael Stempel — 47 Patents

Qualcomm: 44 patents #545 of 12,104Top 5%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Raleigh, NC: #115 of 6,378 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #631 of 45,564 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #59,703 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47 Patents All Time
Brian Michael Stempel has been granted 47 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in February 2023. Brian Michael Stempel ranks #59,703 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Brian Michael Stempel in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2010.peak 82007: 2 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 8 patents2011: 5 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 6 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212023: 2 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11593117 Combining load or store instructions Harsh Thakker, Thomas Philip Speier, Rodney Wayne Smith, Kevin JAGET, James Norris Dieffenderfer +5 more 2023-02-28 $13,289,000
11550723 Method, apparatus, and system for memory bandwidth aware data prefetching Niket K. Choudhary, David Scott Ray, Thomas Philip Speier, Eric F. Robinson, Harold W. Cain, III +3 more 2023-01-10 $15,777,000
11061822 Method, apparatus, and system for reducing pipeline stalls due to address translation misses Pritha Ghoshal, Niket K. Choudhary, Ravi Rajagopalan, Patrick Eibl, David Scott Ray +1 more 2021-07-13 $37,091,000
10956162 Operand-based reach explicit dataflow processors, and related methods and computer-readable media Robert Douglas Clancy, Melinda J. Brown, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Thomas Philip Speier +3 more 2021-03-23 $162,800,000
10877895 Method, apparatus, and system for prefetching exclusive cache coherence state for store instructions Luke Yen, Niket K. Choudhary, Pritha Ghoshal, Thomas Philip Speier, William James McAvoy +1 more 2020-12-29 $26,776,000
10318436 Precise invalidation of virtually tagged caches William James McAvoy, Spencer E. Williams, Robert Douglas Clancy, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Thomas Philip Speier 2019-06-11 $21,100,000
10108419 Dependency-prediction of instructions James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Melinda J. Brown 2018-10-23 $9,777,000
9858077 Issuing instructions to execution pipelines based on register-associated preferences, and related instruction processing circuits, processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media Melinda J. Brown, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael William Morrow, Michael Scott McIlvaine 2018-01-02 $10,891,000
9823929 Optimizing performance for context-dependent instructions Daren Eugene Streett, Thomas Philip Speier, Rodney Wayne Smith, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Kenneth Alan Dockser +1 more 2017-11-21 $12,071,000
9477478 Multi level indirect predictor using confidence counter and program counter address filter scheme Kulin N. Kothari, Michael William Morrow, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Daren Eugene Streett 2016-10-25 $14,056,000
9477476 Fusing immediate value, write-based instructions in instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media Melinda J. Brown, Michael William Morrow, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Rodney Wayne Smith +2 more 2016-10-25 $14,056,000
9460018 Method and apparatus for tracking extra data permissions in an instruction cache Leslie Mark DeBruyne, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael Scott McIlvaine 2016-10-04 $10,096,000
9411590 Method to improve speed of executing return branch instructions in a processor Rodney Wayne Smith, Jeffery M. Schottmiller, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Melinda J. Brown, Daren Eugene Streett 2016-08-09 $11,703,000
9329930 Cache memory error detection circuits for detecting bit flips in valid indicators in cache memory following invalidate operations, and related methods and processor-based systems John Ingalls, Thomas Philip Speier 2016-05-03 $8,023,000
9317293 Establishing a branch target instruction cache (BTIC) entry for subroutine returns to reduce execution pipeline bubbles, and related systems, methods, and computer-readable media James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael William Morrow, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Daren Eugene Streett, Vimal Reddy 2016-04-19 $8,352,000
9195466 Fusing conditional write instructions having opposite conditions in instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media Melinda J. Brown, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Rodney Wayne Smith, Jeffery M. Schottmiller +2 more 2015-11-24 $6,955,000
9146741 Eliminating redundant masking operations instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media Melinda J. Brown, Michael William Morrow, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael Scott McIlvaine 2015-09-29 $6,885,000
8943300 Method and apparatus for generating return address predictions for implicit and explicit subroutine calls using predecode information James Norris Dieffenderfer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Rodney Wayne Smith 2015-01-27 $5,677,000
8898437 Predecode repair cache for instructions that cross an instruction cache line Rodney Wayne Smith, David John Mandzak, James Norris Dieffenderfer 2014-11-25 $11,005,000
8819342 Methods and apparatus for managing page crossing instructions with different cacheability Leslie Mark DeBruyne, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael Scott McIlvaine 2014-08-26 $8,532,000
8438371 Link stack repair of erroneous speculative update James Norris Dieffenderfer, Rodney Wayne Smith 2013-05-07 $13,923,000
8438372 Link stack repair of erroneous speculative update James Norris Dieffenderfer, Rodney Wayne Smith 2013-05-07 $13,923,000
8352713 Debug circuit comparing processor instruction set operating mode Kevin Charles Burke, Daren Eugene Streett, Kevin Allen Sapp, Leslie Mark DeBruyne, Nabil Amir Rizk +2 more 2013-01-08 $16,682,000
8291202 Apparatus and methods for speculative interrupt vector prefetching Daren Eugene Streett 2012-10-16 $10,610,000
8185725 Selective powering of a BHT in a processor having variable length instructions Rodney Wayne Smith 2012-05-22 $14,225,000