Inventor · Round Rock, TX, US

Alan J. Drake

53Patents
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76Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 8, 2002 → May 10, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8405413B2 Critical path monitor having selectable operating modes and single edge detection Physics 27 Active
US7576569B2 Circuit for dynamic circuit timing synthesis and monitoring of critical paths and environmental conditions of an integrated circuit Physics 25 Active
US7418641B2 Self-resetting, self-correcting latches Physics 17 Active
US8704576B1 Variable resistance switch for wide bandwidth resonant global clock distribution Physics 16 Active
US8736342B1 Changing resonant clock modes Physics 16 Active
US7321269B2 High frequency ring oscillator with feed-forward paths Electricity 14 Expired
US7548823B2 Correction of delay-based metric measurements using delay circuits having differing metric sensitivities Physics 12 Active
US6650163B1 Clock generator for integrated circuit Electricity 11 Expired
US8527801B2 Performance control of frequency-adapting processors by voltage domain adjustment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US9000822B2 Programmable delay circuit Electricity 9 Active
US8713490B1 Managing aging of silicon in an integrated circuit device Physics 8 Active
US6883330B2 Variable geometry inlet design for scram jet engine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 7 Expired
US9058130B2 Tunable sector buffer for wide bandwidth resonant global clock distribution Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US9054682B2 Wide bandwidth resonant global clock distribution Physics 7 Active
US9310424B2 Monitoring aging of silicon in an integrated circuit device Physics 6 Active
US9407247B2 Programmable delay circuit Electricity 6 Active
US7542862B2 Calibration of multi-metric sensitive delay measurement circuits Physics 6 Active
US9298250B2 Reconfigurable circuit to emulate system critical paths Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US9105627B2 Coil inductor for on-chip or on-chip stack Electricity 5 Active
US7328571B2 Semi-axisymmetric scramjet flowpath with conformal nozzle Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 5 Expired
US9465373B2 Dynamic adjustment of operational parameters to compensate for sensor based measurements of circuit degradation Physics 5 Active
US8941426B1 Extending a clock frequency range of a critical path monitor Physics 5 Active
US7810000B2 Circuit timing monitor having a selectable-path ring oscillator Physics 4 Active
US7590907B2 Method and apparatus for soft-error immune and self-correcting latches Physics 3 Active
US7734970B2 Self-resetting, self-correcting latches Physics 3 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.