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Robert A. Lester — 53 Patents

HP: 18 patents #913 of 7,018Top 15%
Qualcomm: 6 patents #2,934 of 12,104Top 25%
CGCompaq Information Technologies Group: 3 patents #17 of 407Top 5%
Houston, TX: #191 of 21,073 inventorsTop 1%
Texas: #1,558 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
Robert A. Lester has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in October 2017. Robert A. Lester ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Robert A. Lester in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 1999.peak 91997: 3 patents19971998: 1 patents1999: 9 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 9 patents20012002: 3 patents2003: 3 patents20032004: 7 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 4 patents2008: 2 patents20082010: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9785211 Independent power collapse methodology Christopher Edward Koob, Xufeng Chen, Manojkumar Pyla, Peixin Zhong 2017-10-10 $7,544,000
9142268 Dual-voltage domain memory buffers, and related systems and methods Jentsung Lin, Paul Bassett, Manojkumar Pyla, Christopher Edward Koob 2015-09-22 $4,637,000
8990543 System and method for generating and using predicates within a single instruction packet Lucian Codrescu, Charles Joseph Tabony, Erich James Plondke, Mao Zeng, Suresh K. Venkumahanti +1 more 2015-03-24 $8,819,000
8880958 Interleaved architecture tracing and microarchitecture tracing Suresh K. Venkumahanti, Prasanna Kumar Balasundaram 2014-11-04 $5,064,000
8117420 Buffer management structure with selective flush Jian Shen 2012-02-14 $22,709,000
7685411 Multi-mode instruction memory unit Muhammad Ahmed, Lucian Codrescu, Erich James Plondke, William C. Anderson, Phillip M. Jones 2010-03-23 $20,734,000
7447943 Handling memory errors in response to adding new memory to a system Paul Vu, Darrell R. Haskell, Timoth W. Majni 2008-11-04 $12,315,000
7320086 Error indication in a raid memory system Tim Majni, Gary J. Piccirillo, John M. MacLaren, John E. Larson, Jerome J. Johnson +8 more 2008-01-15 $36,769,000
7155568 Transaction generator for initialization, rebuild, and verify of memory Elizabeth Anne Richard, John E. Larson 2006-12-26 $31,179,000
7116241 Removable memory cartridge system for use with a server or other processor-based device Christian Post, George D. Megason, Brett D. Roscoe, Paul Santeler, John M. MacLaren +6 more 2006-10-03 $18,678,000
7028213 Error indication in a raid memory system Tim Majni, Gary J. Piccirillo, John M. MacLaren, John E. Larson, Jerome J. Johnson +8 more 2006-04-11 $7,307,000
7010652 Method for supporting multi-level striping of non-homogeneous memory to maximize concurrency Gary J. Piccirillo, John M. MacLaren, John E. Larson, Jerome J. Johnson, Benjamin H. Clark 2006-03-07 $23,967,000
6981095 Hot replace power control sequence logic John M. MacLaren, Jerome J. Johnson, Gary J. Piccirillo, John E. Larson, Christian Post +3 more 2005-12-27 $10,035,000
6975241 Removable memory cartridge system for use with a server or other processor-based device Christian Post, George D. Megason, Brett D. Roscoe, Paul Santeler, John M. MacLaren +6 more 2005-12-13 $14,168,000
6854070 Hot-upgrade/hot-add memory Jerome J. Johnson, John M. MacLaren, John E. Larson, Gary J. Piccirillo, Christian Post +4 more 2005-02-08 $10,023,000
6832340 Real-time hardware memory scrubbing John E. Larson, John M. MacLaren, Gary J. Piccirillo, Jerome J. Johnson, Patrick L. Ferguson 2004-12-14 $9,954,000
6823424 Rebuild bus utilization John E. Larson, Elizabeth Anne Richard 2004-11-23 $9,603,000
6785835 Raid memory John M. MacLaren, Paul Santeler, Kenneth A. Jansen, Sompong Paul Olarig, Patrick L. Ferguson +3 more 2004-08-31 $7,969,000
6785785 Method for supporting multi-level stripping of non-homogeneous memory to maximize concurrency Gary J. Piccirillo, John M. MacLaren, John E. Larson, Jerome J. Johnson, Benjamin H. Clark 2004-08-31 $7,969,000
6766469 Hot-replace of memory John E. Larson, John M. MacLaren, Jerome J. Johnson, Gary J. Piccirillo, Christian Post +4 more 2004-07-20 $10,517,000
6747563 Removable memory cartridge system for use with a server or other processor-based device Christian Post, George D. Megason, Brett D. Roscoe, Paul Santeler, John M. MacLaren +6 more 2004-06-08 $12,707,000
6715116 Memory data verify operation John M. MacLaren, Patrick L. Ferguson, John E. Larson 2004-03-30 $16,313,000
6640282 Hot replace power control sequence logic John M. MacLaren, Jerome J. Johnson, Gary J. Piccirillo, John E. Larson, Christian Post +3 more 2003-10-28 $28,787,000
6608564 Removable memory cartridge system for use with a server or other processor-based device Christian Post, George D. Megason, Brett D. Roscoe, Paul Santeler, John M. MacLaren +6 more 2003-08-19 $17,267,000
6505260 Computer system with adaptive memory arbitration scheme Kenneth T. Chin, C. Kevin Coffee, Michael J. Collins, Jerome J. Johnson, Phillip M. Jones +2 more 2003-01-07 $22,076,000