1. Qualcomm Incorporated (75 from 41,498 patents)

2. International Business Machines Corporation (39 from 164,197 patents)

3. Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC (4 from 54,719 patents)

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4. 11175926 - Providing exception stack management using stack panic fault exceptions in processor-based devices

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6. 10114750 - Preventing the displacement of high temporal locality of reference data fill buffers

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9. 9823929 - Optimizing performance for context-dependent instructions

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11. 9514061 - Method and apparatus for cache tag compression

12. 9477476 - Fusing immediate value, write-based instructions in instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media

13. 9477478 - Multi level indirect predictor using confidence counter and program counter address filter scheme

14. 9460018 - Method and apparatus for tracking extra data permissions in an instruction cache

15. 9317293 - Establishing a branch target instruction cache (BTIC) entry for subroutine returns to reduce execution pipeline bubbles, and related systems, methods, and computer-readable media