Ivan E. Sutherland
67Patents
17h-index
28Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 10, 1978 → Sep 17, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.