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Michael Butts — 52 Patents

QSQuickturn Design Systems: 30 patents #1 of 71Top 2%
Intel: 15 patents #2,763 of 30,777Top 9%
TATabula: 10 patents #11 of 42Top 30%
NINethra Imaging: 2 patents #5 of 9Top 60%
MGMentor Graphics: 1 patents #345 of 698Top 50%
CSCadence Design Systems: 1 patents #1,216 of 2,263Top 55%
SYSynopsis: 1 patents #1 of 39Top 3%
Portland, OR: #325 of 9,213 inventorsTop 4%
Oregon: #655 of 28,073 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Michael Butts has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Quickturn Design Systems. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in August 2014. Michael Butts ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Michael Butts in Portland, OR, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8810277 Non-sequentially configurable IC Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2014-08-19
8638119 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2014-01-28
8305110 Non-sequentially configurable IC Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2012-11-06
8193830 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2012-06-05
8103866 System for reconfiguring a processor array 2012-01-24
7948266 Non-sequentially configurable IC Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2011-05-24
7872496 Method of mapping a user design defined for a user design cycle to an IC with multiple sub-cycle reconfigurable circuits Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2011-01-18
7801033 System of virtual data channels in an integrated circuit Anthony Mark Jones, Paul Wasson 2010-09-21
7792933 System and method for performing design verification Elliot H. Mednick 2010-09-07 $4,692,000
7739097 Emulation system with time-multiplexed interconnect Stephen P. Sample, Mikhail Bershteyn, Jerry R. Bauer 2010-06-15
7667486 Non-sequentially configurable IC Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2010-02-23
7616027 Configurable circuits, IC's and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2009-11-10
7532032 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2009-05-12
7425841 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2008-09-16
7408382 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2008-08-05
7260794 Logic multiprocessor for FPGA implementation 2007-08-21
7193440 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2007-03-20
7167025 Non-sequentially configurable IC Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2007-01-23
7157933 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2007-01-02
7109752 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Herman Schmit, Brad Hutchings, Steven Teig 2006-09-19
6882176 High-performance programmable logic architecture Kevin A. Norman, Rakesh Patel, Stephen P. Sample 2005-04-19 $24,543,000
6810373 Method and apparatus for modeling using a hardware-software co-verification environment Bruce D. Harmon, Gordon Battaile, Kevin L. Heilman, Levent Caglar, Raju Marchala +2 more 2004-10-26 $4,335,000
6732068 Memory circuit for use in hardware emulation system Stephen P. Sample, Mikhail Bershteyn, Jerry R. Bauer 2004-05-04
6625793 Optimized emulation and prototyping architecture Stephen P. Sample 2003-09-23
6570404 High-performance programmable logic architecture Kevin A. Norman, Rakesh Patel, Stephen P. Sample 2003-05-27 $96,696,000