Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Herman Schmit

145Patents
31h-index
51Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 13, 1999 → Sep 25, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7342415B2 Configurable IC with interconnect circuits that also perform storage operations Electricity 239 Expired
US6633182B2 Programmable gate array based on configurable metal interconnect vias Physics 232 Expired
US7224182B1 Hybrid configurable circuit for a configurable IC Electricity 108 Expired
US7109752B1 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Electricity 102 Expired
US7193440B1 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Electricity 93 Expired
US7295037B2 Configurable IC with routing circuits with offset connections Electricity 66 Expired
US7157933B1 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Electricity 60 Expired
US7242216B1 Embedding memory between tile arrangement of a configurable IC Electricity 59 Expired
US7236009B1 Operational time extension Electricity 58 Expired
US7230869B1 Method and apparatus for accessing contents of memory cells Physics 57 Expired
US7532032B2 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Electricity 56 Active
US7948266B2 Non-sequentially configurable IC Electricity 56 Active
US7298169B2 Hybrid logic/interconnect circuit in a configurable IC Electricity 54 Expired
US7167025B1 Non-sequentially configurable IC Electricity 52 Expired
US7530033B2 Method and apparatus for decomposing functions in a configurable IC Electricity 49 Expired
US7443196B2 Configuration network for a configurable IC Electricity 47 Expired
US7521958B2 Hybrid configurable circuit for a configurable IC Electricity 46 Active
US7126373B1 Configurable logic circuits with commutative properties Electricity 42 Expired
US7595655B2 Retrieving data from a configurable IC Electricity 42 Active
US7576564B2 Configurable IC with routing circuits with offset connections Electricity 42 Active
US7425841B2 Configurable circuits, IC's, and systems Electricity 42 Expired
US7587698B1 Operational time extension Electricity 41 Active
US7224181B1 Clock distribution in a configurable IC Electricity 41 Expired
US7259587B1 Configurable IC's with configurable logic resources that have asymetric inputs and/or outputs Electricity 39 Expired
US7197647B1 Method of securing programmable logic configuration data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired

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