Inventor

Carl K. Wakeland

Inventor

Scotts Valley, CA, US

Overview

30→

Patents

1993–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 30 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing32%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication14%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television11%

G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information7%

G10HElectrophonic musical instruments7%

Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use7%

G05BControl or regulating systems in general5%

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general5%

G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis2%

H03HImpedance networks, e.g. resonant circuits2%

PatentTitleYear

10,929,944Low power and low latency GPU coprocessor for persistent computing2021 10,712,800Aligning active and idle phases in a mixed workload computing platform2020 9,286,904'Adjusting a data rate of a digital audio stream based on dynamically determined audio playback system capabilities'2016 8,060,226'Method and signal processing device to provide one or more fractional delay lines'2011 7,457,484'Method and device to process digital media streams'2008 7,328,270'Communication protocol processor having multiple microprocessor cores connected in series and dynamically reprogrammed during operation via instructions transmitted along the same data paths used to convey communication data'2008 7,290,091'Method and circuit to implement digital delay lines'2007 7,219,194'Method and circuit to implement digital delay lines'2007 6,317,119'Speed-compensated joystick'2001 6,188,241'Microcontroller having a block of logic configurable to perform a selected logic function and to produce output signals coupled to corresponding I/O pads according to a predefined hardware interface'2001 6,185,732'Software debug port for a microprocessor'2001 6,170,024'Adjusting the volume by a keyboard via an independent control circuit, independent of a host computer'2001 6,154,856'Debug interface including state machines for timing synchronization and communication'2000 6,101,192'Network router with partitioned memory for optimized data storage and retrieval'2000 6,047,002'Communication traffic circle system and method for performing packet conversion and routing between different packet formats including an instruction field'2000 5,999,994'Dual path computer control system'1999 5,966,116'Method and logic system for the rotation of raster-scan display images'1999 5,941,968'Computer system for concurrent data transferring between graphic controller and unified system memory and between CPU and expansion bus device'1999 5,943,481'Computer communication network having a packet processor with subsystems that are variably configured for flexible protocol handling'1999 5,905,873'System and method of routing communications data with multiple protocols using crossbar switches'1999 5,896,383'System and method for encoding instruction fields within data packets'1999 5,892,496'Method and apparatus for displaying grayscale data on a monochrome graphic display'1999 5,872,919'Computer communication network having a packet processor with an execution unit which is variably configured from a programmable state machine and logic'1999 5,586,308'Clock control unit responsive to a power management state for clocking multiple clocked circuits connected thereto'1996 5,561,384'Input/output driver circuit for isolating with minimal power consumption a peripheral component from a core section'1996 5,258,826'Multiple extended mode supportable multimedia palette and multimedia system incorporating same'1993 5,254,984'VGA controller for displaying images having selective components from multiple image planes'1993 5,220,410'Method and apparaus for decoding encoded video data'1993 5,218,432'Method and apparatus for merging video data signals from multiple sources and multimedia system incorporating same'1993 5,185,655'Method and apparatus for encoding full color video data signals and protocol for encoding same'1993

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1993Patents assigned to TANDY CORP (5)· patent assignee history

1993–2001Based in Bedford, TX, US· patent location history

1996–2021Patents assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC (17)· patent assignee history

1996–2000Based in Austin, TX, US· patent location history

1999Based in Austinn, TX, US· patent location history

2000–2021Based in Scotts Valley, CA, US· patent location history

2001–2011Patents assigned to CREATIVE TECH LTD (5)· patent assignee history

2001Patents assigned to AST RES INC (1)· patent assignee history

2016–2020Patents assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (2)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC	17	1996–2021
CREATIVE TECH LTD	5	2001–2011
TANDY CORP	5	1993
ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC	2	2016–2020
AST RES INC	1	2001

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Scotts Valley, California, US	13	2000–2021
Austin, Texas, US	9	1996–2000
Bedford, Texas, US	7	1993–2001
Austinn, Texas, US	1	1999