Thomas Walker Lynch is an inventor whose work developed alongside many of the major trends in modern computing. His contributions were part of larger efforts at companies such as AMD and Intellectual Ventures. The resulting IP reflects ideas that moved in step with where technology as a whole was heading.

Most of this IP was assigned to employers or to IP holding companies, so Thomas does not know exactly which products it may have ultimately appeared in. The work itself, however, shows a clear pattern: he consistently operated in conceptual spaces just ahead of technologies that later became widespread — high-performance math engines, program optimization, access control, early social-network structures, shared-state systems, and advanced cooling.

Some of his related work was never patented at all. His graduate research on concept spaces in AI predates today’s embedding-based models. His early herd-based social-dynamics model, discussed during his time interacting with Intellectual Ventures, foreshadowed mechanisms now familiar in large social networks. His symbiosis framework explored replicated data and trust relationships with characteristics later seen in Bitcoin and other block chains.

His IP shows that he was working in these domains early, contributing ideas that paralleled and sometimes anticipated broader developments. This page groups that IP by the value it creates in the real world — not as sole origin stories, but as one inventor’s part in the long chain of progress.

For detailed technical descriptions and a scraper-friendly list, see IP (Technical Description).

Artificial intelligence depends on processors that can perform enormous numbers of precise calculations every second. This IP strengthens the math engines and data pathways inside real CPUs — enabling the kind of high-throughput computation modern AI relies on.

High speed mixed radix adder – US5285406 – inventors: Thomas W. Lynch; Steven D. McIntyre – Google Patents

Radix 4 carry lookahead tree – US5095458 – inventors: Thomas W. Lynch; Steven D. McIntyre – Google Patents

Special carry save adder – US5206828 – inventors: Salim A. Shah; Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

High speed divider with square root – US5128891 – inventors: Thomas W. Lynch; Stephen D. McIntyre; Ken Tseng; Salim A. Shah; Tony Hurson – Google Patents

Normalizing pipelined floating point unit – US5267186 – inventors: Smeeta Gupta; Robert M. Perlman; Thomas W. Lynch; Brian D. McMinn – Google Patents

Normalizing pipelined floating point unit – US5058048 – inventors: Smeeta Gupta; Robert M. Perlman; Thomas W. Lynch; Brian D. McMinn – Google Patents

Pipelined floating point unit – US5053631 – inventors: Smeeta Gupta; Robert M. Perlman; Thomas W. Lynch; Brian D. McMinn – Google Patents

Ripple carry shifter – US5901076 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Piping rounding mode bits – US6233672 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Tagging floating point operands – US6009511 – inventors: Thomas W. Lynch; Ashraf Ahmed – Google Patents

Assembly queue for floating point unit – US5828873 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

People expect apps to launch quickly and respond without stutter. This IP improves how programs are translated, organized, and fed into the processor so that software behaves efficiently on real hardware, from desktops to mobile devices.

Rapid pipeline control – US5930492 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Detecting instruction groups – US5829031 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Hierarchical microcode for FP instructions – US5859998 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

DSP call detection – US5721945 – inventors: Andrew Mills; Mark A. Ireton; Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

FPU–reorder buffer interface – US5887185 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Stack memory data cache – US5930820 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Use-once data cache – US5829028 – inventors: Thomas W. Lynch; Christopher J. Yard – Google Patents

Reconfigurable bus interconnect – US5771362 – inventors: John G. Bartkowiak; Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Program translation system – US5819067 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Online life depends on platforms that organize people and information in human terms — who you know, what you share, what you see. This IP explores person-centric networking, tagging, sorting, and expressive digital identities that echo what later became standard in social and collaborative systems.

R-SMART person-centric networking – US20090119327 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Managing communications on R-SMART network – US20090119377 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Controlling access to R-SMART network – US20090119378 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Managing data using R-SMART criteria – US20090119245 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Object annotation – US8924844 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Associating data with criteria – US20110208740 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Cascading sort interface – US20080104074 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Avatar facial expression modulation – US20080079716 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Travelers/Commuters portable staging device – US20080228905 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Multimedia member network – US6487600 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Streaming video, paid apps, subscriptions, and protected documents all rely on rules about who can access what. This IP helps enforce those rules, protect internal pathways, and manage device-level security as digital content moved to online and subscription models.

Network access control via transactional artifacts – US11909728 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Network access control via transactional artifacts – US9438595 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Network access control via transactional artifacts – US20170019392 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Network access control via transactional artifacts – US20120317626 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Protected intra-system interconnect – US8302200 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Validation of protected interconnects – US8291501 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Validation of protected interconnects – US20130014273 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Protected interconnect – US20090205048 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Protected interconnect – US20080271152 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Soft digital rights management – US20090126027 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Portable electronic device management – US20200304628 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Portable electronic device management – US20080294798 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Long before Bitcoin, there was already work on keeping replicated data coherent and trustworthy across multiple machines. This IP explores symbiotic computing: many hosts holding related or identical data, keeping it synchronized, and layering documents in ways that echo later distributed-ledger ideas seen in Bitcoin and other block chains.

Symbiotic computing system – US7593989 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Maintaining coherency in symbiotic system – US7562100 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Maintaining coherency in symbiotic system – US6931430 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Symbiotic network document layering – US20090260061 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

As devices became more powerful and compact, heat and energy use emerged as hard limits. This IP addresses thermal pathways, coolant structures, and low-power circuits that help hardware deliver strong performance while staying within practical thermal and power budgets.

Double bonded heat dissipation – US8018722 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Heat dissipation system – US7706144 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Double bonded heat dissipation – US20100226097 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Reticulated heat dissipation with coolant – US20090165996 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Double bonded heat dissipation – US20090154106 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Reticulated heat dissipation – US20090154111 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents

Low power receiver circuit – US20100315124 – inventor: Thomas W. Lynch – Google Patents