Inventor · Cary, NC, US

Michael William Morrow

48Patents
10h-index
37Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 4, 1995 → Jul 8, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6624535B2 Digitally controlling the output voltage of a plurality of voltage sources Electricity 52 Expired
US7120714B2 High-speed starvation-free arbiter system, rotating-priority arbiter, and two stage arbitration method Physics 42 Expired
US7284137B2 System and method for managing power consumption within an integrated circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US8533395B2 Moveable locked lines in a multi-level cache Physics 21 Active
US10855674B1 Pre-boot network-based authentication Physics 19 Active
US6664775B1 Apparatus having adjustable operational modes and method therefore Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US8932996B2 Gas hydrate inhibitors and methods for making and using same Chemistry; Metallurgy 17 Active
US7917702B2 Data prefetch throttle Physics 15 Active
US5646361A Laser emitting visual display for a music system Human Necessities 11 Expired
US7428645B2 Methods and apparatus to selectively power functional units Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6898718B2 Method and apparatus to monitor performance of a process Physics 9 Expired
US6949918B2 Apparatus having adjustable operational modes and method therefore Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US7337272B2 Method and apparatus for caching variable length instructions Physics 6 Active
US7596683B2 Switching processor threads during long latencies Physics 6 Active
US9043795B2 Apparatus and methods for adaptive thread scheduling on asymmetric multiprocessor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US9477478B2 Multi level indirect predictor using confidence counter and program counter address filter scheme Physics 5 Active
US7949834B2 Method and apparatus for setting cache policies in a processor Physics 5 Active
US10709117B2 Aquaculture systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7434027B2 Translation lookaside buffer prediction mechanism Physics 3 Active
US7472390B2 Method and apparatus to enable execution of a thread in a multi-threaded computer system Physics 3 Expired
US9477476B2 Fusing immediate value, write-based instructions in instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media Physics 3 Active
US8341383B2 Method and a system for accelerating procedure return sequences Physics 3 Active
US9092358B2 Memory management unit with pre-filling capability Physics 3 Active
US8060701B2 Apparatus and methods for low-complexity instruction prefetch system Physics 3 Active
US7039763B2 Apparatus and method to share a cache memory Physics 2 Expired

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