Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Andrew E. Horch

94Patents
20h-index
32Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 12, 1993 → Nov 29, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7456439B1 Vertical thyristor-based memory with trench isolation and its method of fabrication Electricity 147 Expired
US6653174B1 Thyristor-based device over substrate surface Electricity 81 Expired
US6965129B1 Thyristor-based device having dual control ports Electricity 52 Expired
US6790713B1 Method for making an inlayed thyristor-based device Electricity 44 Expired
US6690039B1 Thyristor-based device that inhibits undesirable conductive channel formation Electricity 43 Expired
US7400255B2 Wireless functional testing of RFID tag Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US7326969B1 Semiconductor device incorporating thyristor-based memory and strained silicon Electricity 38 Expired
US7482251B1 Etch before grind for semiconductor die singulation Electricity 35 Active
US6703646B1 Thyristor with lightly-doped emitter Electricity 33 Expired
US7897440B1 Vertical thyristor-based memory with trench isolation and method of fabrication thereof Electricity 32 Active
US6953953B1 Deep trench isolation for thyristor-based semiconductor device Electricity 32 Expired
US7528724B2 On die RFID tag antenna Electricity 29 Expired
US6690038B1 Thyristor-based device over substrate surface Electricity 28 Expired
US7304327B1 Thyristor circuit and approach for temperature stability Electricity 28 Expired
US7312622B2 Wafer level testing for RFID tags Physics 27 Expired
US6888176B1 Thyrister semiconductor device Electricity 26 Expired
US6727528B1 Thyristor-based device including trench dielectric isolation for thyristor-body regions Electricity 26 Expired
US7279367B1 Method of manufacturing a thyristor semiconductor device Electricity 23 Expired
US6781888B1 Reference cells for TCCT based memory cells Physics 23 Expired
US7508719B2 Non-volatile memory cell circuit with programming through band-to-band tunneling and impact ionization gate current Physics 21 Active
US5329237A Method and system for decoupling inoperative passive elements on a semiconductor chip Electricity 20 Expired
US6818482B1 Method for trench isolation for thyristor-based device Electricity 20 Expired
US6583452B1 Thyristor-based device having extended capacitive coupling Electricity 20 Expired
US7474568B2 Non-volatile memory with programming through band-to-band tunneling and impact ionization gate current Physics 19 Active
US8122307B1 One time programmable memory test structures and methods Physics 19 Active

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