Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Eric Carman

58Patents
15h-index
33Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 2, 1997 → Sep 8, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7492632B2 Memory array having a programmable word length, and method of operating same Electricity 348 Active
US7085156B2 Semiconductor memory device and method of operating same Physics 334 Expired
US7542345B2 Multi-bit memory cell having electrically floating body transistor, and method of programming and reading same Physics 317 Active
US7486563B2 Sense amplifier circuitry and architecture to write data into and/or read from memory cells Physics 259 Active
US7733693B2 Semiconductor memory device and method of operating same Physics 215 Active
US7933140B2 Techniques for reducing a voltage swing Physics 214 Active
US7085153B2 Semiconductor memory cell, array, architecture and device, and method of operating same Physics 213 Expired
US7301838B2 Sense amplifier circuitry and architecture to write data into and/or read from memory cells Physics 150 Expired
US7924630B2 Techniques for simultaneously driving a plurality of source lines Physics 131 Active
US7187581B2 Semiconductor memory device and method of operating same Physics 102 Expired
US8139418B2 Techniques for controlling a direct injection semiconductor memory device Physics 53 Active
US7359229B2 Semiconductor memory device and method of operating same Physics 33 Active
US8416636B2 Techniques for controlling a semiconductor memory device Physics 28 Active
US5929478A Single level gate nonvolatile memory device and method for accessing the same Electricity 27 Expired
US9799388B1 Charge sharing between memory cell plates using a conductive path Physics 15 Active
US8213226B2 Vertical transistor memory cell and array Electricity 12 Active
US9767880B1 Ferroelectric memory cell apparatuses and methods of operating ferroelectric memory cells Physics 11 Active
US8400811B2 Techniques for providing a direct injection semiconductor memory device having ganged carrier injection lines Physics 9 Active
US7940559B2 Memory array having a programmable word length, and method of operating same Electricity 7 Active
US8194487B2 Refreshing data of memory cells with electrically floating body transistors Physics 7 Active
US6882582B2 EEPROM circuit voltage reference circuit and method for providing a low temperature-coefficient voltage reference Physics 6 Expired
US9123410B2 Memory controller for reducing capacitive coupling in a cross-point memory Physics 6 Active
US9711213B2 Operational signals generated from capacitive stored charge Physics 6 Active
US10127963B2 Charge sharing between memory cell plates using a conductive path Physics 5 Active
US7619944B2 Method and apparatus for variable memory cell refresh Physics 4 Active

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