Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Greg M. Hess

40Patents
5h-index
34Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 17, 2005 → Sep 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8860464B2 Zero keeper circuit with full design-for-test coverage Physics 9 Active
US7834662B2 Level shifter with embedded logic and low minimum voltage Electricity 9 Active
US7411409B2 Digital leakage detector that detects transistor leakage current in an integrated circuit Physics 7 Expired
US11005459B1 Efficient retention flop utilizing different voltage domain Electricity 6 Active
US8912853B2 Dynamic level shifter circuit and ring oscillator using the same Electricity 5 Active
US9529533B1 Power grid segmentation for memory arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7454674B2 Digital jitter detector Physics 5 Active
US8014211B2 Keeperless fully complementary static selection circuit Physics 5 Active
US8570788B2 Method and apparatus for power domain isolation during power down Physics 4 Active
US10523194B2 Low leakage power switch Electricity 4 Active
US7995410B2 Leakage and NBTI reduction technique for memory Physics 4 Active
US8558603B2 Multiplexer with level shifter Electricity 4 Active
US8102728B2 Cache optimizations using multiple threshold voltage transistors Physics 3 Active
US8174918B2 Passgate for dynamic circuitry Physics 2 Active
US7994820B2 Level shifter with embedded logic and low minimum voltage Electricity 2 Active
US9286971B1 Method and circuits for low latency initialization of static random access memory Physics 2 Active
US9236100B1 Dynamic global memory bit line usage as storage node Physics 1 Active
US8203898B2 Leakage and NBTI reduction technique for memory Physics 1 Active
US10453505B2 Pulsed sub-VDD precharging of a bit line Physics 1 Active
US8476930B2 Level shifter with embedded logic and low minimum voltage Electricity 1 Active
US11418174B2 Efficient retention flop utilizing different voltage domain Electricity 1 Active
US9131899B2 Efficient handling of misaligned loads and stores Physics 0 Active
US9207705B2 Selectable phase or cycle jitter detector Electricity 0 Active
US9455000B2 Shared gate fed sense amplifier Physics 0 Active
US12333357B2 Memory bit cell for in-memory computation Electricity 0 Active

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