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Brent Bean — 40 Patents

VTVia Technologies: 30 patents #12 of 1,108Top 2%
VCVia Alliance Semiconductor Co.: 6 patents #18 of 157Top 15%
IPIp-First: 2 patents #16 of 27Top 60%
CTCentaur Technology: 1 patents #8 of 16Top 50%
UAUS Army: 1 patents #2,854 of 6,974Top 45%
Austin, TX: #665 of 18,064 inventorsTop 4%
Texas: #2,511 of 125,132 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Brent Bean has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Via Technologies. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in January 2023. Brent Bean ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Brent Bean in Austin, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11567776 Branch density detection for prefetcher Thomas C. McDonald 2023-01-31
10108431 Method and apparatus for waking a single core of a multi-core microprocessor, while maintaining most cores in a sleep state G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Stephan Gaskins 2018-10-23
10078581 Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires 2018-09-18
10067875 Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires 2018-09-04
9967092 Key expansion logic using decryption key primitives G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2018-05-08
9911008 Microprocessor with on-the-fly switching of decryption keys G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2018-03-06
9892283 Decryption of encrypted instructions using keys selected on basis of instruction fetch address G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2018-02-13
9830155 Microprocessor using compressed and uncompressed microcode storage G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks 2017-11-28
9798675 System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line basis for detecting self-modifying code including code with looping instructions Colin Eddy 2017-10-24
9798669 System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line basis for detecting self-modifying code Colin Eddy 2017-10-24
9798670 System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line basis for detecting self-modifying code including modification of a cache line with an executing instruction Colin Eddy 2017-10-24
9798898 Microprocessor with secure execution mode and store key instructions G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2017-10-24
9792216 System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line basis for detecting self-modifying code including code with instruction that overlaps cache line boundaries Colin Eddy 2017-10-17
9507404 Single core wakeup multi-core synchronization mechanism G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Stephan Gaskins 2016-11-29
9483263 Uncore microcode ROM G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Rodney E. Hooker, John Bunda 2016-11-01
9461818 Method for encrypting a program for subsequent execution by a microprocessor configured to decrypt and execute the encrypted program G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2016-10-04
9372696 Microprocessor with compressed and uncompressed microcode memories G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks 2016-06-21
9361097 Selectively compressed microcode G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks 2016-06-07
8886960 Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between encrypted and unencrypted programs G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2014-11-11
8880902 Microprocessor that securely decrypts and executes encrypted instructions G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2014-11-04
8850229 Apparatus for generating a decryption key for use to decrypt a block of encrypted instruction data being fetched from an instruction cache in a microprocessor G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2014-09-30
8719589 Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between multiple encrypted programs having different associated decryption key values G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2014-05-06
8700919 Switch key instruction in a microprocessor that fetches and decrypts encrypted instructions G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2014-04-15
8683225 Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between encrypted and unencrypted programs G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2014-03-25
8671285 Microprocessor that fetches and decrypts encrypted instructions in same time as plain text instructions G. Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Thomas A. Crispin 2014-03-11