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
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.