Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

Samsung Semiconuctor, Inc.

46Patents
3Active
46Granted
38Portfolio score

Filing activity: Aug 30, 1988 → Feb 13, 2020 · 1 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5153450A Programmable output drive circuit Electricity 85 Expired
US5319258A Programmable output drive circuit Electricity 65 Expired
US5242851A Programmable interconnect device and method of manufacturing same Electricity 56 Expired
US5039875A CMOS power-on reset circuit Electricity 53 Expired
US5487049A Page-in, burst-out FIFO Physics 52 Expired
US5442748A Architecture of output switching circuitry for frame buffer Physics 41 Expired
US5238872A Barrier metal contact architecture Electricity 35 Expired
US5293623A Random access memory based buffer memory and associated method utilizing pipelined look-ahead reading Physics 31 Expired
US5155384A Bias start-up circuit Electricity 25 Expired
US5132556A Bandgap voltage reference using bipolar parasitic transistors and MOSFET's in the current source Physics 22 Expired
US5451893A Programmable duty cycle converter Electricity 20 Expired
US5304918A Reference circuit for high speed integrated circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US5539430A Pipelined read write operations in a high speed frame buffer system Physics 18 Expired
US5589831A Fully differential flash ADC based on the voltage follower amplifier structure Electricity 18 Expired
US5248907A Output buffer with controlled output level Electricity 17 Expired
US5574411A Lumped parameter balun Electricity 14 Expired
US4991142A Dynamic random access memory with improved sensing and refreshing Physics 14 Expired
US5528751A Frame buffer system designed for windowing operations Physics 13 Expired
US5261076A Method for programming a pin compatible memory device by maintaining a reset clock signal longer than a regular reset duration Physics 12 Expired
US5397945A Duty cycle control circuit Electricity 11 Expired
US5155453A Low-power crystal oscillator Electricity 10 Expired
US5067109A Data output buffer circuit for a SRAM Physics 10 Expired
US5450080A Keyboard encoding Electricity 10 Expired
US5166095A Low contact resistance process Electricity 9 Expired
US5336625A BiCMOS process with low base recombination current bipolar transistors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired

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