Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Benedict Lau

100Patents
25h-index
35Co-inventors
90Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 6, 1997 → Nov 10, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6643787B1 Bus system optimization Electricity 313 Expired
US6125157A Delay-locked loop circuitry for clock delay adjustment Electricity 250 Expired
US6047346A System for adjusting slew rate on an output of a drive circuit by enabling a plurality of pre-drivers and a plurality of output drivers Physics 195 Expired
US6539072B1 Delay locked loop circuitry for clock delay adjustment Electricity 169 Expired
US6950956B2 Integrated circuit with timing adjustment mechanism and method Electricity 132 Expired
US6133773A Variable delay element Electricity 104 Expired
US6924660B2 Calibration methods and circuits for optimized on-die termination Electricity 100 Expired
US7042914B2 Calibrated data communication system and method Electricity 77 Expired
US6469555B1 Apparatus and method for generating multiple clock signals from a single loop circuit Electricity 74 Expired
US6509756B1 Method and apparatus for low capacitance, high output impedance driver Physics 66 Expired
US6369652B1 Differential amplifiers with current and resistance compensation elements for balanced output Electricity 64 Expired
US6759881B2 System with phase jumping locked loop circuit Electricity 61 Expired
US6462588B2 Asymmetry control for an output driver Electricity 60 Expired
US7151390B2 Calibration methods and circuits for optimized on-die termination Electricity 55 Expired
US6806728B2 Circuit and method for interfacing to a bus channel Physics 54 Expired
US7535933B2 Calibrated data communication system and method Electricity 53 Active
US6760857B1 System having both externally and internally generated clock signals being asserted on the same clock pin in normal and test modes of operation respectively Physics 52 Expired
US7307461B2 System and method for adaptive duty cycle optimization Physics 37 Expired
US6897699B1 Clock distribution network with process, supply-voltage, and temperature compensation Electricity 33 Expired
US7133945B2 Scalable I/O signaling topology using source-calibrated reference voltages Electricity 30 Expired
US6911853B2 Locked loop with dual rail regulation Electricity 30 Expired
US7543172B2 Strobe masking in a signaling system having multiple clock domains Physics 28 Expired
US7321524B2 Memory controller with staggered request signal output Physics 27 Expired
US6330193A Method and apparatus for low capacitance, high output impedance driver Physics 26 Expired
US7046056B2 System with dual rail regulated locked loop Electricity 26 Expired

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