G06F 15/8053
Vector processors
Official title: {Vector processors}
G06F15/8053 (Vector processors) appears on 940 US grants and 727 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 940
- Published applications
- 727
- Assignees
- 237
- Inventors
- 1,626
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 20 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Recursive generation and distribution of command bundles at core array22 Sep 2026US 12,743,396 B1OXMIQ Labs Inc.
- Feature tracking15 Sep 2026US 12,737,182 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Data processing using accelerators1 Sep 2026US 12,724,740 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Irregular cadence data processing units7 Jul 2026US 12,675,434 B2Google Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for eviction in dual datapath victim cache system16 Jun 2026US 12,657,134 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Vector index registers in vector processors that each store multiple addresses for accessing multiple positions in vectors1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299952 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for eviction in dual datapath victim cache system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300187 A1
- Methods and apparatus to facilitate read-modify-write support in a victim cache17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277825 A1
- Vector unit with an activation function accelerator pipeline3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259853 A1Akeana, Inc.
- Methods and Circuits for Streaming Data to Processing Elements in Stacked Processor-Plus-Memory Architecture16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203251 A1Rambus Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for controlling a highly parallel multiprocessor using an anarchy based scheduler for parallel execution thread scheduling448US 5,179,702 ASupercomputer Systems Limited Partnership · 1993
- Vector processor system420US 8,356,144 B22013
- Processor having plurality of functional units for orderly retiring outstanding operations based upon its associated tags403US 5,226,126 ANexgen Microsystems · 1993
- Instruction issuing mechanism for processors with multiple functional units361US 4,807,115 ACornell Research Foundation, Inc. · 1989
- Method and apparatus for user side scheduling in a multiprocessor operating system program that implements distributive scheduling of processes323US 6,195,676 B1Silicon Graphics, Inc. · 2001