Inventor · Wilsonville, OR, US

David L. Knierim

89Patents
17h-index
88Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 7, 1983 → Feb 17, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5185599A Local display bus architecture and communications method for Raster display Physics 86 Expired
US4742474A Variable access frame buffer memory Physics 68 Expired
US5109520A Image frame buffer access speedup by providing multiple buffer controllers each containing command FIFO buffers Physics 57 Expired
US7296882B2 Ink jet printer performance adjustment Performing Operations; Transporting 53 Expired
US4586037A Raster display smooth line generation Physics 47 Expired
US4755810A Frame buffer memory Physics 43 Expired
US5689288A Ink level sensor Performing Operations; Transporting 38 Expired
US5600352A Apparatus and method for controlling coalescence of ink drops on a print medium Physics 36 Expired
US5517534A Phase locked loop with reduced phase noise Electricity 35 Expired
US9789697B1 Fluid level sensor with combined capacitance and conductance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Active
US5502468A Ink jet print head drive with normalization Performing Operations; Transporting 33 Expired
US5659587A Spread spectrum phase-locked loop clock generator with VCO driven by a symmetrical voltage ramp signal Electricity 31 Expired
US4823301A Method and circuit for computing reciprocals Physics 27 Expired
US4646078A Graphics display rapid pattern fill using undisplayed frame buffer memory Physics 25 Expired
US4780755A Frame buffer self-test Physics 22 Expired
US8149017B2 Low-voltage to high-voltage level translation using capacitive coupling Electricity 18 Active
US7243917B2 Print media registration using active tracking of idler rotation Performing Operations; Transporting 17 Expired
US6076922A Method and apparatus for generating a dot clock signal for controlling operation of a print head Electricity 16 Expired
US8205971B2 Electrically grounded inkjet ejector and method for making an electrically grounded inkjet ejector Performing Operations; Transporting 11 Active
US7556326B2 Ink level sensor and method of use Physics 11 Active
US6972403B2 Position encoder Performing Operations; Transporting 9 Expired
US7575293B2 Dual drop printing mode using full length waveforms to achieve head drop mass differences Performing Operations; Transporting 9 Active
US5296792A Bidirectional chopper transconductance amplifier Electricity 8 Expired
US7021739B2 Ink jet processes Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Expired
US5235413A Method and apparatus for processing component signals to preserve high frequency intensity information Electricity 7 Expired

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