Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Hengyang (James) Lin

18Patents
8h-index
13Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 3, 1998 → Jan 21, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6169310A Electrostatic discharge protection device Electricity 26 Expired
US6992927B1 Nonvolatile memory cell Physics 23 Expired
US6184557A I/O circuit that utilizes a pair of well structures as resistors to delay an ESD event and as diodes for ESD protection Electricity 21 Expired
US6563730B1 Low power static RAM architecture Physics 19 Expired
US7167392B1 Non-volatile memory cell with improved programming technique Physics 14 Expired
US7558969B1 Anti-pirate circuit for protection against commercial integrated circuit pirates Physics 13 Expired
US7239558B1 Method of hot electron injection programming of a non-volatile memory (NVM) cell array in a single cycle Physics 13 Expired
US7164606B1 Reverse fowler-nordheim tunneling programming for non-volatile memory cell Physics 9 Expired
US6618282B1 High density ROM architecture with inversion of programming Physics 7 Expired
US8363469B1 All-NMOS 4-transistor non-volatile memory cell Electricity 5 Active
US7286383B1 Bit line sharing and word line load reduction for low AC power SRAM architecture Physics 5 Expired
US6642587B1 High density ROM architecture Electricity 5 Expired
US7126866B1 Low power ROM architecture Physics 4 Expired
US7656698B1 Non-volatile memory cell with improved programming technique with decoupling pass gates and equalize transistors Physics 4 Active
USRE44130E1 Anti-pirate circuit for protection against commercial integrated circuit pirates General 1 Active
US6801046B1 Method of testing the electrostatic discharge performance of an IC device Physics 1 Expired
US7061792B1 Low AC power SRAM architecture Physics 1 Expired
US8213227B2 4-transistor non-volatile memory cell with PMOS-NMOS-PMOS-NMOS structure Physics 0 Active

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