Inventor · Santa Cruz, CA, US

David P. Rossum

43Patents
15h-index
28Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 21, 1974 → Dec 20, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5763800A Method and apparatus for formatting digital audio data Physics 106 Expired
US5943427A Method and apparatus for three dimensional audio spatialization Electricity 101 Expired
US3969682A Circuit for dynamic control of phase shift Electricity 89 Expired
US5111727A Digital sampling instrument for digital audio data Physics 55 Expired
US5342990A Digital sampling instrument employing cache-memory Physics 47 Expired
US5864876A DMA device with local page table Physics 41 Expired
US3986423A Polyphonic music synthesizer Physics 35 Expired
US6324235A Asynchronous sample rate tracker Electricity 33 Expired
US5248845A Digital sampling instrument Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US5698807A Digital sampling instrument Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US5170369A Dynamic digital IIR audio filter and method which provides dynamic digital filtering for audio signals Electricity 24 Expired
US5928342A Audio effects processor integrated on a single chip with a multiport memory onto which multiple asynchronous digital sound samples can be concurrently loaded Physics 20 Expired
US6016522A System for switching between buffers when receiving bursty audio by computing loop jump indicator plus loop start address for read operations in selected buffer Physics 19 Expired
US5698803A Digital sampling instrument employing cache memory Physics 17 Expired
US7280878B1 Sample rate converter having distributed filtering Electricity 16 Expired
US5925841A Digital sampling instrument employing cache memory Physics 14 Expired
US9478234B1 Microphone apparatus and method with catch-up buffer Electricity 13 Active
US5144676A Digital sampling instrument Physics 12 Expired
US4987600A Digital sampling instrument Physics 12 Expired
US6092126A Asynchronous sample rate tracker with multiple tracking modes Physics 11 Expired
US4506579A Electronic musical instrument Physics 11 Expired
US5303309A Digital sampling instrument Physics 10 Expired
US6137043A Digital sampling instrument employing cache memory Physics 10 Expired
US8965942B1 Systems and methods for sample rate tracking Electricity 9 Active
US4404529A Lowpass filter with electronic control of cutoff and resonance Electricity 9 Expired

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