Inventor · Lake Oswego, OR, US

Bruce E. Petrick

16Patents
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8Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 20, 1984 → Jun 2, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5892966A Processor complex for executing multimedia functions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 84 Expired
US6148391A System for simultaneously accessing one or more stack elements by multiple functional units using real stack addresses Physics 59 Expired
US4646355A Method and apparatus for input picture enhancement by removal of undersired dots and voids Physics 35 Expired
US4648119A Method and apparatus for forming 3.times.3 pixel arrays and for performing programmable pattern contingent modifications of those arrays Physics 28 Expired
US5872965A System and method for performing multiway branches using a visual instruction set Physics 28 Expired
US4648026A Microprocessor stepper motor drive Physics 18 Expired
US5920889A Apparatus and method for write miss processing in a copy-back data cache with an allocating load buffer and a non-allocating store buffer Physics 13 Expired
US5715425A Apparatus and method for prefetching data into an external cache Physics 11 Expired
US6446168B1 Method and apparatus for dynamically switching a cache between direct-mapped and 4-way set associativity Physics 10 Expired
US8205110B2 Synchronous operation of a system with asynchronous clock domains Physics 8 Active
US6334180A Processor coupled by visible register set to modular coprocessor including integrated multimedia unit Physics 5 Expired
US5856746A Logic speed-up by selecting true/false combinations with the slowest logic signal Electricity 3 Expired
US8103888B2 Method and apparatus for power savings in a multi-threaded processor using a symbol gated with a clock signal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9705509B1 Alignment of samples across different clock domains Physics 1 Active
US10009032B2 Alignment of samples across different clock domains Physics 0 Active
US8848576B2 Dynamic node configuration in directory-based symmetric multiprocessing systems Physics 0 Active

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