G06F 9/30021
Compare instructions
Official title: {Compare instructions, e.g. Greater-Than, Equal-To, MINMAX}
G06F9/30021 (Compare instructions) appears on 930 US grants and 849 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 930
- Published applications
- 849
- Assignees
- 201
- Inventors
- 1,323
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 29 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 27 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 5 |
| 2002 | 19 | 18 |
| 2003 | 9 | 25 |
| 2004 | 9 | 18 |
| 2005 | 16 | 11 |
| 2006 | 15 | 18 |
| 2007 | 16 | 10 |
| 2008 | 9 | 20 |
| 2009 | 10 | 17 |
| 2010 | 13 | 11 |
| 2011 | 13 | 19 |
| 2012 | 8 | 10 |
| 2013 | 19 | 43 |
| 2014 | 10 | 42 |
| 2015 | 23 | 45 |
| 2016 | 58 | 49 |
| 2017 | 65 | 93 |
| 2018 | 38 | 62 |
| 2019 | 71 | 69 |
| 2020 | 78 | 63 |
| 2021 | 64 | 51 |
| 2022 | 50 | 24 |
| 2023 | 34 | 38 |
| 2024 | 41 | 44 |
| 2025 | 26 | 18 |
| 2026 | 26 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for permuting streamed data elements8 Sep 2026US 12,730,758 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Adaptive cache memory buffer register architecture1 Sep 2026US 12,724,611 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- NUMA multi-core processor switching between lock modes, operating method, and instructions therefor28 Jul 2026US 12,693,908 B2Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Vectorized operations for sparse kernels21 Jul 2026US 12,688,041 B2Arm Limited
- Streaming engine with cache-like stream data storage and lifetime tracking14 Jul 2026US 12,681,726 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- 8-bit floating point comparison instructions1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299944 A1Intel Products IP LLC
- Low-power operations using leading zero count10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267650 A1Apple Inc.
- Bitmap conversions13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236262 A1Arm Limited
- Vector simd vliw data path architecture9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195129 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Processor for performing flow control of multiple types of instructions and method for performing flow control of multiple types of instructions in processor25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178331 A1Mediatek Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Packet processing system including a policy engine having a classification unit624US 6,157,955 AIntel Corporation · 2000
- 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
- Maintaining even and odd array pointers to extreme values by searching and comparing multiple elements concurrently where a pointer is adjusted after processing to account for a number of pipeline stages422US 6,948,056 B1Analog Devices, Inc. · 2005
- Processing architecture having a compare capability417US 7,028,170 B2Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2006
- Integrated circuit device and method for determining an index of an extreme value within an array of values417US 9,165,023 B2Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. · 2015