G06F 9/3877
Using a secondary processor
Official title: {using a secondary processor, e.g. coprocessor (peripheral processor G06F13/12)}
G06F9/3877 (Using a secondary processor) appears on 2,325 US grants and 2,137 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,325
- Published applications
- 2,137
- Assignees
- 599
- Inventors
- 4,781
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 47 | 0 |
| 2001 | 58 | 21 |
| 2002 | 34 | 50 |
| 2003 | 33 | 52 |
| 2004 | 51 | 89 |
| 2005 | 36 | 45 |
| 2006 | 51 | 47 |
| 2007 | 38 | 66 |
| 2008 | 45 | 75 |
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| 2014 | 34 | 82 |
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| 2018 | 51 | 47 |
| 2019 | 67 | 159 |
| 2020 | 122 | 217 |
| 2021 | 163 | 223 |
| 2022 | 184 | 188 |
| 2023 | 199 | 147 |
| 2024 | 160 | 124 |
| 2025 | 96 | 72 |
| 2026 | 81 | 53 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for exploiting queues and transitional storage for improved low-latency high-bandwidth on-die data retrieval22 Sep 2026US 12,743,741 B2Intel Corporation
- Cross drawer message passing in a strongly ordered coherent symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) cache15 Sep 2026US 12,737,188 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Virtual graphics processing unit scheduling based preemption overhead15 Sep 2026US 12,737,208 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Chiplet-integrated machine learning accelerators1 Sep 2026US 12,724,732 B2Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus to process data packets for logical and virtual switch acceleration in memory25 Aug 2026US 12,717,600 B2Intel Corporation
- Processor controlled programmable logic device modification1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299908 A1Altera Corporation
- Reducing power consumption by hardware accelerator during generation and transmission of machine learning inferences24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288468 A1Google Inc.
- Executing large artificial intelligence models on memory-constrained devices24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288469 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Chiplet-integrated machine learning accelerators24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288661 A1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Tiled compressed sparse matrix format10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267645 A1NVIDIA Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed processing memory chip with embedded logic having both data memory and broadcast memory557US 5,751,987 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1998
- Method and apparatus for using smart memories in computing492US 6,807,614 B22004
- Symmetrical multiprocessing bus and chipset used for coprocessor support allowing non-native code to run in a system440US 6,308,255 B1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · 2001
- Algorithm mapping, specialized instructions and architecture features for smart memory computing432US 7,546,438 B22009
- Active memory data compression system and method418US 9,015,390 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2015