Inventor · Dallas, TX, US

Gary V. Zanders

32Patents
15h-index
26Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 28, 1989 → Feb 24, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5638418A Temperature detector systems and methods Physics 78 Expired
US6115441A Temperature detector systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US6697897B1 Data communication interface between host and slave processors Electricity 54 Expired
US5258721A Ring signal detection circuit Electricity 49 Expired
US6112275A Method of communicating over a single wire bus between a host device and a module device which measures thermal accumulation over time Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US5619066A Memory for an electronic token Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US5388134A Integrated circuit thermometer Physics 44 Expired
US5032742A ESD circuit for input which exceeds power supplies in normal operation Electricity 31 Expired
US5513235A Integrated circuit thermometer Physics 28 Expired
US5552999A Digital histogram generator systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US4996453A Power down circuit for low-power circuit with dual supply voltages Electricity 20 Expired
US5297056A Directly-writable digital potentiometer Electricity 19 Expired
US5047663A Low-power comparator which tolerates high-slew-rate incoming signals and deriving power from the incoming signals Electricity 18 Expired
US5717935A Digital potentiometer Electricity 16 Expired
US5517015A Communication module Electricity 16 Expired
US5111069A Layout of integrated circuit with very large transistors Electricity 15 Expired
US5218225A Thin-film resistor layout Electricity 13 Expired
US5243535A Digital potentiometer with stackable configuration Electricity 10 Expired
US6091318A Integral bump technology sense resistor Electricity 9 Expired
US6677860B2 Method and apparatus for end of discharge indication based on critical energy requirement Physics 6 Expired
US5544063A Digital controller Electricity 5 Expired
US5526274A Digital potentiometer with stackable configuration system Electricity 5 Expired
US5517470A Nonvolatile control architecture Electricity 5 Expired
US5548550A Nonvolatile control architecture Electricity 5 Expired
US5003362A Integrated circuit with high-impedance well tie Electricity 4 Expired

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