Mark A. Johnson
48Patents
17h-index
50Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 25, 1980 → Mar 11, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5513366A | Method and system for dynamically reconfiguring a register file in a vector processor | Physics | 203 | Expired |
| US5887183A | Method and system in a data processing system for loading and storing vectors in a plurality of modes | Physics | 184 | Expired |
| US6836849B2 | Method and apparatus for controlling power and performance in a multiprocessing system according to customer level operational requirements | Physics | 97 | Expired |
| US5758176A | Method and system for providing a single-instruction, multiple-data execution unit for performing single-instruction, multiple-data operations within a superscalar data processing system | Physics | 82 | Expired |
| US5680338A | Method and system for vector processing utilizing selected vector elements | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US6119209A | Backup directory for a write cache | Physics | 62 | Expired |
| US6192450A | Destage of data for write cache | Physics | 57 | Expired |
| US5825677A | Numerically intensive computer accelerator | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US5890222A | Method and system for addressing registers in a data processing unit in an indirect addressing mode | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6065070A | DMA configurable channel with memory width N and with steering logic comprising N multiplexors, each multiplexor having a single one-byte input and N one-byte outputs | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US4600837A | Optical scanning apparatus with dynamic scan path control | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US4558383A | Information storage disk transducer position control system using a prerecorded servo pattern requiring no alignment with the storage disk | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US4294507A | Controllably deformed elastic waveguide elements | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US4384761A | Ferrofluid optical switches | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5450585A | Compiler with delayed conditional branching | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US4564756A | Proximity sensor with a light-emitting diode which simultaneously emits and detects light | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US6106968A | Smart valve regulated lead acid battery with embedded electronic monitoring and fluid fill system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US4684547A | Format patterning method for magnetic recording media | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US6728671B1 | Automatic speech recognition caller input rate control | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US9013324B2 | RF4CE for automotive and industrial environments | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Active |
| US5969503A | Unified contactor control system for battery plant and method of operation thereof | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US4613916A | Information storage disk transducer position control system requiring no servo pattern on the storage disk | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US9144026B2 | Interfaces for setup of a transport refrigeration system and providing transport refrigeration system diagnostic information to a user | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Active |
| US6957301B2 | System and method for detecting data integrity problems on a data storage device | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US5832533A | Method and system for addressing registers in a data processing unit in an indexed addressing mode | Physics | 5 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.