David Milton
22Patents
10h-index
15Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 24, 1990 → Apr 11, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6084694A | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 146 | Expired |
| US6493117B1 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US7555741B1 | Computer-aided-design tools for reducing power consumption in programmable logic devices | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US6631018B1 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US6529300B1 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US6892032B2 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US9098662B1 | Configuring a device to debug systems in real-time | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US6748174B2 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US6556321B1 | WDM optical network and switching node with pilot tone communications | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US6775479B2 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US8196085B1 | Interactive design optimization techniques and interface | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US5164941A | System for implementing improved attempt-and-defer access contention protocol | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6751418B2 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6563615B2 | Technique for detecting noise on a data channel | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6795652B2 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6757498B2 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US9971858B1 | Method and apparatus for performing register retiming in the presence of false path timing analysis exceptions | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8707244B1 | Methods and systems for performing signal activity extraction | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US9026980B1 | Methods and systems for performing signal activity extraction | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10671781B2 | Method and apparatus for performing register retiming in the presence of false path timing analysis exceptions | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US6347000B1 | WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | General | 0 | Revoked |
| US9811621B2 | Implementing integrated circuit designs using depopulation and repopulation operations | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.