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Rodney Wayne Smith — 72 Patents

Qualcomm: 51 patents #481 of 12,104Top 4%
Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
Raleigh, NC: #61 of 6,378 inventorsTop 1%
North Carolina: #310 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #27,714 of 4,157,543Top 1%
72 Patents All Time
Rodney Wayne Smith has been granted 72 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in November 2025. Rodney Wayne Smith ranks #27,714 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.67%). Patent records list Rodney Wayne Smith in Raleigh, NC, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 72 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12473503 Hydrocarbon pyrolysis of feeds containing sulfur Alok Mani Srivastava, James P. Chapman 2025-11-18
12435018 Processes and systems for upgrading a hydrocarbon Selma S. Lawrence, Mark A. Nierode 2025-10-07
11842196 Obsoleting values stored in registers in a processor based on processing obsolescent register-encoded instructions Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier, Michael Scott McIlvaine, James Norris Dieffenderfer 2023-12-12 $384,338,000
11803389 Reach matrix scheduler circuit for scheduling instructions to be executed in a processor Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Douglas C. Burger, Gagan Gupta, Kiran Ravi Seth 2023-10-31 $411,327,000
11669333 Method, apparatus, and system for reducing live readiness calculations in reservation stations Raghavan MADHAVAN, Luke Yen, Shivam Priyadarshi, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen 2023-06-06 $9,942,000
11593117 Combining load or store instructions Harsh Thakker, Thomas Philip Speier, Kevin JAGET, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Michael William Morrow +5 more 2023-02-28 $13,289,000
11392537 Reach-based explicit dataflow processors, and related computer-readable media and methods Gagan Gupta, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Thomas Philip Speier, David T. Harper 2022-07-19 $193,645,000
11392410 Operand pool instruction reservation clustering in a scheduler circuit in a processor Shivam Priyadarshi, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh 2022-07-19 $193,645,000
11188334 Obsoleting values stored in registers in a processor based on processing obsolescent register-encoded instructions Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier, Michael Scott McIlvaine, James Norris Dieffenderfer 2021-11-30 $214,111,000
11113068 Performing flush recovery using parallel walks of sliced reorder buffers (SROBs) Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Kiran Ravi Seth, Shivam Priyadarshi 2021-09-07 $230,668,000
11061677 Recovering register mapping state of a flushed instruction employing a snapshot of another register mapping state and traversing reorder buffer (ROB) entries in a processor Kiran Ravi Seth, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Shivam Priyadarshi, Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh 2021-07-13 $194,223,000
11036512 Systems and methods for processing instructions having wide immediate operands Arthur Perais, Shivam Priyadarshi, Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh, Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh 2021-06-15 $163,655,000
11023243 Latency-based instruction reservation station clustering in a scheduler circuit in a processor Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Shivam Priyadarshi 2021-06-01 $175,540,000
10956162 Operand-based reach explicit dataflow processors, and related methods and computer-readable media Robert Douglas Clancy, Melinda J. Brown, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Brian Michael Stempel, Michael Scott McIlvaine +3 more 2021-03-23 $162,800,000
10896041 Enabling early execution of move-immediate instructions having variable immediate value sizes in processor-based devices Shivam Priyadarshi, Arthur Perais, Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh 2021-01-19 $251,618,000
10877768 Minimizing traversal of a processor reorder buffer (ROB) for register rename map table (RMT) state recovery for interrupted instruction recovery in a processor Shivam Priyadarshi, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Kiran Ravi Seth, Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh 2020-12-29 $251,937,000
10860328 Providing late physical register allocation and early physical register release in out-of-order processor (OOP)-based devices implementing a checkpoint-based architecture Shivam Priyadarshi, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Luke Yen 2020-12-08 $25,945,000
10551896 Method and apparatus for dynamic clock and voltage scaling in a computer processor based on program phase Shivam Priyadarshi, Anil Krishna, Raguram Damodaran, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Ryan D. Wells +1 more 2020-02-04 $22,296,000
10514921 Fast reuse of physical register names Tejaswi Talluru, Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Kiran Ravi Seth, Daniel Higdon, Jeffery M. Schottmiller +1 more 2019-12-24 $26,100,000
10108417 Storing narrow produced values for instruction operands directly in a register map in an out-of-order processor Anil Krishna, Sandeep Suresh Navada, Shivam Priyadarshi, Raguram Damodaran 2018-10-23 $9,777,000
9851774 Method and apparatus for dynamic clock and voltage scaling in a computer processor based on program phase Shivam Priyadarshi, Anil Krishna, Raguram Damodaran, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Ryan D. Wells +1 more 2017-12-26 $10,564,000
9823929 Optimizing performance for context-dependent instructions Daren Eugene Streett, Brian Michael Stempel, Thomas Philip Speier, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Kenneth Alan Dockser +1 more 2017-11-21 $12,071,000
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, Brian Michael Stempel, Michael Scott McIlvaine +2 more 2016-10-25 $14,056,000
9471325 Method and apparatus for selective renaming in a microprocessor Anil Krishna, Sandeep Suresh Navada, Niket K. Choudhary, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Thomas Andrew Sartorius +1 more 2016-10-18 $12,379,000
9411590 Method to improve speed of executing return branch instructions in a processor Jeffery M. Schottmiller, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Brian Michael Stempel, Melinda J. Brown, Daren Eugene Streett 2016-08-09 $11,703,000