A federal jury ordered the Hewlett-Packard Company on Friday to pay $184-million in a patent-infringement lawsuit involving Cornell University.

If the jury’s verdict is upheld, Cornell would get a share of the proceeds. Another share would go to the Cornell professor, now retired, who developed the technology at the heart of the dispute. The professor, Hwa C. Torng, said he would donate most of his 20-percent share of the award, or about $36.8-million, to charity, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported.

Cornell sued Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, Calif., almost seven years ago in federal court in Syracuse, N.Y. The suit accused the giant technology company of infringing on a technique that Mr. Torng patented in 1989. Then a professor in the university’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mr. Torng developed a technique for designing microprocessor chips that made high-end computers faster. Cornell alleged that Hewlett-Packard began infringing on the technique in 1995. —Kate Moser