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Zilog, Inc.

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241Patents
39Active
241Granted
46Portfolio score

Filing activity: Nov 9, 1978 → Aug 7, 2013 · 32 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5428252A Power supply interruption detection and response system for a microcontroller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 261 Expired
US6407779B1 Method and apparatus for an intuitive universal remote control system Electricity 259 Expired
US5386251A Television receiver with learning remote control system capable of being controlled by a remote control device manufactured by different companies Electricity 231 Expired
US5963624A Digital cordless telephone with remote control feature Electricity 187 Expired
US5805834A Hot reconfigurable parallel bus bridging circuit Physics 149 Expired
US5493574A Power efficient RAM disk and a method of emulating a rotating memory disk Physics 99 Expired
US4420767A Thermally balanced leadless microelectronic circuit chip carrier Electricity 96 Expired
US4942553A System for providing notification of impending FIFO overruns and underruns Physics 88 Expired
US4605980A Integrated circuit high voltage protection Electricity 85 Expired
US5978127A Light phase grating device Physics 79 Expired
US5319753A Queued interrupt mechanism with supplementary command/status/message information Physics 76 Expired
US7343496B1 Secure transaction microcontroller with secure boot loader Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Active
US4670749A Integrated circuit programmable cross-point connection technique Electricity 74 Expired
US6165846A Method of eliminating gate leakage in nitrogen annealed oxides Electricity 71 Expired
US5495594A Technique for automatically adapting a peripheral integrated circuit for operation with a variety of microprocessor control signal protocols Physics 68 Expired
US6190973A Method of fabricating a high quality thin oxide Electricity 67 Expired
US5231590A Technique for modifying an integrated circuit layout Physics 63 Expired
US5240880A Ti/TiN/Ti contact metallization Electricity 57 Expired
US6300796A High voltage PMOS level shifter Electricity 56 Expired
US5278957A Data transfer circuit for interfacing two bus systems that operate asynchronously with respect to each other Physics 55 Expired
US4794524A Pipelined single chip microprocessor having on-chip cache and on-chip memory management unit Physics 54 Expired
US6049899A Soft errors handling in EEPROM devices Physics 51 Expired
US5317187A Ti/TiN/Ti contact metallization Electricity 50 Expired
US5386469A Firmware encryption for microprocessor/microcomputer Electricity 46 Expired
US7259696B1 Interactive web-based codeset selection and development tool Physics 42 Expired

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