Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Christopher H. Olson

83Patents
21h-index
49Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 16, 1991 → Feb 10, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5961636A Checkpoint table for selective instruction flushing in a speculative execution unit Physics 67 Expired
US7478225B1 Apparatus and method to support pipelining of differing-latency instructions in a multithreaded processor Physics 65 Expired
US7570760B1 Apparatus and method for implementing a block cipher algorithm Electricity 54 Active
US7620821B1 Processor including general-purpose and cryptographic functionality in which cryptographic operations are visible to user-specified software Physics 54 Active
US5826070A Apparatus and method for maintaining status flags and condition codes using a renaming technique in an out of order floating point execution unit Physics 54 Expired
US7795899B1 Enabling on-chip features via efuses Physics 53 Active
US6361645B1 Method and device for compensating wafer bias in a plasma processing chamber Electricity 51 Expired
US5392228A Result normalizer and method of operation Physics 49 Expired
US5822758A Method and system for high performance dynamic and user programmable cache arbitration Physics 49 Expired
US5634103A Method and system for minimizing branch misprediction penalties within a processor Physics 43 Expired
US5880983A Floating point split multiply/add system which has infinite precision Physics 42 Expired
US5241493A Floating point arithmetic unit with size efficient pipelined multiply-add architecture Physics 41 Expired
US7571284B1 Out-of-order memory transactions in a fine-grain multithreaded/multi-core processor Physics 38 Expired
US6265831A Plasma processing method and apparatus with control of rf bias Electricity 37 Expired
US7684563B1 Apparatus and method for implementing a unified hash algorithm pipeline Electricity 33 Active
US8417961B2 Apparatus and method for implementing instruction support for performing a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) Electricity 27 Active
US5957997A Efficient floating point normalization mechanism Physics 27 Expired
US5794024A Method and system for dynamically recovering a register-address-table upon occurrence of an interrupt or branch misprediction Physics 26 Expired
US5758680A Method and apparatus for pressure control in vacuum processors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US5384723A Method and apparatus for floating point normalization Physics 25 Expired
US5553015A Efficient floating point overflow and underflow detection system Physics 22 Expired
US8654970B2 Apparatus and method for implementing instruction support for the data encryption standard (DES) algorithm Electricity 21 Active
US7353364B1 Apparatus and method for sharing a functional unit execution resource among a plurality of functional units Physics 19 Expired
US5790445A Method and system for performing a high speed floating point add operation Physics 18 Expired
US8671129B2 System and method of bypassing unrounded results in a multiply-add pipeline unit Physics 18 Active

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