Etienne Jacques
30Patents
12h-index
17Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 7, 2001 → Dec 19, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7065731B2 | Removal of acute angles in a design layout | Physics | 198 | Expired |
| US7117468B1 | Layouts with routes with different spacings in different directions on the same layer, and method and apparatus for generating such layouts | Physics | 60 | Expired |
| US6957411B1 | Gridless IC layout and method and apparatus for generating such a layout | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US7197738B1 | Method and apparatus for routing | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6892371B1 | Method and apparatus for performing geometric routing | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7096449B1 | Layouts with routes with different widths in different directions on the same layer, and method and apparatus for generating such layouts | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6938234B1 | Method and apparatus for defining vias | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6931616B2 | Routing method and apparatus | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US6996789B2 | Method and apparatus for performing an exponential path search | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7340711B2 | Method and apparatus for local preferred direction routing | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US7003752B2 | Method and apparatus for routing | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US7155697B2 | Routing method and apparatus | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7013451B1 | Method and apparatus for performing routability checking | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6973634B1 | IC layouts with at least one layer that has more than one preferred interconnect direction, and method and apparatus for generating such a layout | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6957408B1 | Method and apparatus for routing nets in an integrated circuit layout | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7721243B2 | Method and apparatus for routing | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US7036105B1 | Integrated circuits with at least one layer that has more than one preferred interconnect direction, and method for manufacturing such IC's | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US7412682B2 | Local preferred direction routing | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7441220B2 | Local preferred direction architecture, tools, and apparatus | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7003754B2 | Routing method and apparatus that use of diagonal routes | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US6988257B2 | Method and apparatus for routing | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7472366B1 | Method and apparatus for performing a path search | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7080339B2 | Plane representation of wiring in a design layout | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US8065649B2 | Method and apparatus for routing | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8166442B2 | Local preferred direction architecture | Physics | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.