Inventor · Georgetown, TX, US

Michael Catherwood

35Patents
10h-index
32Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 5, 1990 → Apr 19, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5854944A Method and apparatus for determining wait states on a per cycle basis in a data processing system Physics 44 Expired
US5249280A Microcomputer having a memory bank switching apparatus for accessing a selected memory bank in an external memory Physics 24 Expired
US5249148A Method and apparatus for performing restricted modulo arithmetic Physics 20 Expired
US6728856B2 Modified Harvard architecture processor having program memory space mapped to data memory space Physics 17 Expired
US5890191A Method and apparatus for providing erasing and programming protection for electrically erasable programmable read only memory Physics 15 Expired
US6976158B2 Repeat instruction with interrupt Physics 15 Expired
US7966480B2 Register pointer trap to prevent errors due to an invalid pointer value in a register Physics 12 Active
US5680632A Method for providing an extensible register in the first and second data processing systems Physics 12 Expired
US5535376A Data processor having a timer circuit for performing a buffered pulse width modulation function and method therefor Physics 10 Expired
US5457802A Integrated circuit pin control apparatus and method thereof in a data processing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US8495125B2 DSP engine with implicit mixed sign operands Physics 5 Active
US10248521B2 Run time ECC error injection scheme for hardware validation Physics 5 Active
US5598569A Data processor having operating modes selected by at least one mask option bit and method therefor Physics 5 Expired
US6604169B2 Modulo addressing based on absolute offset Physics 3 Expired
US7020788B2 Reduced power option Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US6601160B2 Dynamically reconfigurable data space Physics 2 Expired
US7007172B2 Modified Harvard architecture processor having data memory space mapped to program memory space with erroneous execution protection Physics 2 Expired
US8856406B2 Peripheral trigger generator Physics 2 Active
US8688964B2 Programmable exception processing latency Physics 1 Active
US8645729B2 External device power control during low power sleep mode without central processing unit intervention Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9858083B2 Dual boot panel SWAP mechanism Physics 1 Active
US8984198B2 Data space arbiter Physics 1 Active
US9619231B2 Programmable CPU register hardware context swap mechanism Physics 1 Active
US6934728B2 Euclidean distance instructions Physics 1 Expired
US7243372B2 Modified Harvard architecture processor having data memory space mapped to program memory space with erroneous execution protection Physics 0 Expired

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