Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Brad W. Simeral

51Patents
12h-index
85Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 23, 2001 → Sep 28, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8239938B2 Centralized device virtualization layer for heterogeneous processing units Physics 71 Active
US7053901B2 System and method for accelerating a special purpose processor Physics 44 Expired
US7450120B1 Apparatus, system, and method for Z-culling Physics 42 Expired
US7191088B1 Method and system for memory temperature detection and thermal load management Physics 33 Expired
US7716506B1 Apparatus, method, and system for dynamically selecting power down level Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Active
US7487371B2 Data path controller with integrated power management to manage power consumption of a computing device and its components Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US6647456B1 High bandwidth-low latency memory controller Physics 25 Expired
US7441087B2 System, apparatus and method for issuing predictions from an inventory to access a memory Physics 20 Expired
US7966439B1 Apparatus, system, and method for a fast data return memory controller Physics 18 Expired
US8532098B2 System and method for virtual channel communication Electricity 17 Active
US7054987B1 Apparatus, system, and method for avoiding data writes that stall transactions in a bus interface Physics 15 Expired
US7755624B1 Apparatus, system, and method for Z-culling Physics 12 Active
US7206902B2 System, apparatus and method for predicting accesses to a memory Physics 12 Expired
US8069355B2 Data path controller with integrated power management to manage power consumption of a computing device and its components Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US7966468B1 Apparatus, system, and method for fast read request transfer through clock domains Physics 11 Expired
US6957298B1 System and method for a high bandwidth-low latency memory controller Physics 6 Expired
US9015446B2 Chipset support for non-uniform memory access among heterogeneous processing units Physics 5 Active
US7495985B1 Method and system for memory thermal load sharing using memory on die termination Physics 4 Expired
US7287145B1 System, apparatus and method for reclaiming memory holes in memory composed of identically-sized memory devices Physics 4 Expired
US7584321B1 Memory address and datapath multiplexing Physics 4 Expired
US9032101B1 Chipset support for binding and migrating hardware devices among heterogeneous processing units Physics 3 Active
US7461211B2 System, apparatus and method for generating nonsequential predictions to access a memory Physics 3 Expired
US8692837B1 Screen compression for mobile applications Physics 3 Active
US8736617B2 Hybrid graphic display Physics 2 Active
US7240179B1 System, apparatus and method for reclaiming memory holes in memory composed of arbitrarily-sized memory devices Physics 2 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.