Inventor · Santa Monica, CA, US

Ivan E. Sutherland

67Patents
17h-index
28Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 10, 1978 → Sep 17, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4900218A Robot arm structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 69 Expired
US7020779B1 Secure, distributed e-mail system Electricity 63 Expired
US5572690A Cascaded multistage counterflow pipeline processor for carrying distinct data in two opposite directions Physics 52 Expired
US6600325B2 Method and apparatus for probing an integrated circuit through capacitive coupling Physics 46 Expired
US6559531B1 Face to face chips Electricity 43 Expired
US6500696B2 Face to face chip Electricity 41 Expired
US5600848A Counterflow pipeline processor with instructions flowing in a first direction and instruction results flowing in the reverse direction Physics 35 Expired
US5187800A Asynchronous pipelined data processing system Physics 29 Expired
US6351261B1 System and method for a virtual reality system having a frame buffer that stores a plurality of view points that can be selected and viewed by the user Physics 27 Expired
US6486709B2 Distributing data to multiple destinations within an asynchronous circuit Physics 26 Expired
US6870271B2 Integrated circuit assembly module that supports capacitive communication between semiconductor dies Electricity 25 Expired
US5567110A Robot arm structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US6356117B1 Asynchronously controlling data transfers within a circuit Physics 20 Expired
US7417993B1 Apparatus and method for high-throughput asynchronous communication Electricity 18 Active
US6995039B2 Method and apparatus for electrostatically aligning integrated circuits Electricity 18 Expired
US6496359B2 Tile array computers Physics 18 Expired
US5758139A Control chains for controlling data flow in interlocked data path circuits Physics 17 Expired
US5805838A Fast arbiter with decision storage Physics 17 Expired
US5748539A Recursive multi-channel interface Physics 16 Expired
US5861762A Inverse toggle XOR and XNOR circuit Electricity 16 Expired
US6925411B1 Method and apparatus for aligning semiconductor chips using an actively driven vernier Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US5943491A Control circuit of mutual exclusion elements Physics 13 Expired
US6188262A Synchronous polyphase clock distribution system Physics 12 Expired
US4679213A Asynchronous queue system Physics 12 Expired
US6304125A Method for generating and distribution of polyphase clock signals Electricity 11 Expired

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