Inventor · New Garden Township, PA, US

James E. Phillips

36Patents
13h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 6, 1984 → Dec 23, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5576765A Video decoder Electricity 143 Expired
US5471628A Multi-function permutation switch for rotating and manipulating an order of bits of an input data byte in either cyclic or non-cyclic mode Physics 92 Expired
US4640002A Method and apparatus for increasing the durability and yield of thin film photovoltaic devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Expired
US5590348A Status predictor for combined shifter-rotate/merge unit Physics 71 Expired
US5051940A Data dependency collapsing hardware apparatus Physics 68 Expired
US5299319A High performance interlock collapsing SCISM ALU apparatus Physics 27 Expired
US5301341A Overflow determination for three-operand alus in a scalable compound instruction set machine which compounds two arithmetic instructions Physics 23 Expired
US6021488A Data processing system having an apparatus for tracking a status of an out-of-order operation and method thereof Physics 20 Expired
US5713001A Circuit for converting address operands supplied by a program to hashed virtual address Physics 20 Expired
US5426743A 3-1 Arithmetic logic unit for simultaneous execution of an independent or dependent add/logic instruction pair Physics 17 Expired
US6458183B1 Method for purifying ruthenium and related processes Chemistry; Metallurgy 15 Expired
US4548213A Corn unit for combine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US5359718A Early scalable instruction set machine alu status prediction apparatus Physics 13 Expired
US5488707A Apparatus for predicting overlapped storage operands for move character Physics 13 Expired
USRE35311E Data dependency collapsing hardware apparatus General 13 Expired
US5771366A Method and system for interchanging operands during complex instruction execution in a data processing system Physics 12 Expired
US9052890B2 Execute at commit state update instructions, apparatus, methods, and systems Physics 12 Active
US4572761A Paper dispensing apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6928533B1 Data processing system and method for implementing an efficient out-of-order issue mechanism Physics 10 Expired
US5745780A Method and apparatus for source lookup within a central processing unit Physics 9 Expired
US5303176A High performance array multiplier using four-to-two composite counters Physics 9 Expired
US6289437A Data processing system and method for implementing an efficient out-of-order issue mechanism Physics 8 Expired
US5233190A Fourier transform molecular spectrometer Electricity 8 Expired
US6684232B1 Method and predictor for streamlining execution of convert-to-integer operations Physics 7 Expired
US4635335A Apparatus for attaching a flexible annular member to a rigid member Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired

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