Alan Welsh Sinclair
92Patents
37h-index
21Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 12, 1974 → Sep 26, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8375146B2 | Ring bus structure and its use in flash memory systems | Physics | 307 | Active |
| US7441067B2 | Cyclic flash memory wear leveling | Physics | 279 | Expired |
| US6725321B1 | Memory system | Physics | 240 | Expired |
| US6069827A | Memory system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 187 | Expired |
| US7450420B2 | Reclaiming data storage capacity in flash memories | Physics | 125 | Expired |
| US6467021B1 | Data storage system storing data of varying block size | Physics | 125 | Expired |
| US7139864B2 | Non-volatile memory and method with block management system | Physics | 123 | Expired |
| US7529905B2 | Method of storing transformed units of data in a memory system having fixed sized storage blocks | Physics | 121 | Expired |
| US6490649B2 | Memory device | Physics | 121 | Expired |
| US7552271B2 | Nonvolatile memory with block management | Physics | 110 | Active |
| US6711059B2 | Memory controller | Physics | 95 | Expired |
| US6345367B1 | Defective memory block handling system by addressing a group of memory blocks for erasure and changing the content therewith | Physics | 92 | Expired |
| US7340581B2 | Method of writing data to non-volatile memory | Physics | 91 | Expired |
| US6578127B1 | Memory devices | Physics | 91 | Expired |
| US9734911B2 | Method and system for asynchronous die operations in a non-volatile memory | Physics | 86 | Active |
| US7984084B2 | Non-volatile memory with scheduled reclaim operations | Physics | 86 | Active |
| US7395384B2 | Method and apparatus for maintaining data on non-volatile memory systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 81 | Expired |
| US6285607A | Memory system | Physics | 76 | Expired |
| US6813678B1 | Flash memory system | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US7127549B2 | Disk acceleration using first and second storage devices | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US7610437B2 | Data consolidation and garbage collection in direct data file storage memories | Physics | 72 | Active |
| US9223693B2 | Memory system having an unequal number of memory die on different control channels | Physics | 63 | Active |
| US7310699B2 | Mass storage accelerator | Physics | 63 | Active |
| US8873284B2 | Method and system for program scheduling in a multi-layer memory | Physics | 59 | Active |
| US10133490B2 | System and method for managing extended maintenance scheduling in a non-volatile memory | Physics | 55 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.