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Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

3,545Patents
1,931Active
3,545Granted
58Portfolio score

Filing activity: Dec 20, 1984 → Sep 19, 2024 · 572 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8993457B1 Method of fabricating a charge-trapping gate stack using a CMOS process flow Electricity 456 Active
US8089289B1 Capacitive field sensor with sigma-delta modulator Electricity 405 Active
US8547114B2 Capacitance to code converter with sigma-delta modulator Electricity 401 Active
US8310201B1 Battery with electronic compartment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 374 Active
US6362525B1 Circuit structure including a passive element formed within a grid array substrate and method for making the same Electricity 368 Expired
US6163048A Semiconductor non-volatile memory device having a NAND cell structure Physics 360 Expired
US5468342A Method of etching an oxide layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 347 Expired
US8982097B1 Water rejection and wet finger tracking algorithms for truetouch panels and self capacitance touch sensors Physics 261 Active
US6897532B1 Magnetic tunneling junction configuration and a method for making the same Electricity 256 Expired
US9989633B1 Estimating angle measurements for source tracking using a phased array system Physics 217 Active
US8169421B2 Apparatus and method for detecting a touch-sensor pad gesture Physics 216 Active
US8040142B1 Touch detection techniques for capacitive touch sense systems Electricity 199 Active
US6322716A Method for conditioning a plasma etch chamber Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 194 Expired
US6603330B1 Configuring digital functions in a digital configurable macro architecture Electricity 193 Expired
US6434187B1 Digital radiofrequency transceiver Electricity 187 Expired
US6709928B1 Semiconductor device having silicon-rich layer and method of manufacturing such a device Electricity 176 Expired
US7307485B1 Capacitance sensor using relaxation oscillators Electricity 166 Expired
US6763426B1 Cascadable content addressable memory (CAM) device and architecture Physics 146 Expired
US5684434A Erasable and programmable single chip clock generator Electricity 144 Expired
US6818558B1 Method of manufacturing a dielectric layer for a silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) type devices Electricity 143 Expired
US6026134A Phase locked loop (PLL) with linear parallel sampling phase detector Electricity 143 Expired
US5877656A Programmable clock generator Electricity 135 Expired
US6012103A Bus interface system and method Physics 135 Expired
US6191660A Programmable oscillator scheme Electricity 134 Expired
US5562801A Method of etching an oxide layer Electricity 131 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.