Inventor · Foster City, CA, US

James B. Burr

110Patents
32h-index
40Co-inventors
90Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 7, 1983 → May 24, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5719422A Low threshold voltage, high performance junction transistor Electricity 207 Expired
US6489224B1 Method for engineering the threshold voltage of a device using buried wells Electricity 199 Expired
US5923987A Method for forming MOS devices with retrograde pocket regions and counter dopant regions at the substrate surface Electricity 157 Expired
US6072217A Tunable threshold SOI device using isolated well structure for back gate Electricity 154 Expired
US5622880A Method of making a low power, high performance junction transistor Electricity 135 Expired
US7683442B1 Raised source/drain with super steep retrograde channel Electricity 121 Active
US6882172B1 System and method for measuring transistor leakage current with a ring oscillator Physics 111 Expired
US5650340A Method of making asymmetric low power MOS devices Electricity 100 Expired
US7256639B1 Systems and methods for integrated circuits comprising multiple body bias domains Electricity 100 Expired
US6087892A Target Ion/Ioff threshold tuning circuit and method Physics 95 Expired
US6091283A Sub-threshold leakage tuning circuit Physics 93 Expired
US6048746A Method for making die-compensated threshold tuning circuit Physics 91 Expired
US6218708A Back-biased MOS device and method Electricity 90 Expired
US4565966A Method and apparatus for testing of electrical interconnection networks Physics 87 Expired
US6249027A Partially depleted SOI device having a dedicated single body bias means Electricity 86 Expired
US6121666A Split gate oxide asymmetric MOS devices Electricity 81 Expired
US6303444A Method for introducing an equivalent RC circuit in a MOS device using resistive wells Electricity 75 Expired
US5773863A Low power, high performance junction transistor Electricity 70 Expired
US5780912A Asymmetric low power MOS devices Electricity 68 Expired
US6110783A Method for forming a notched gate oxide asymmetric MOS device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 60 Expired
US6100567A Tunable threshold SOI device using back gate and intrinsic channel region Electricity 57 Expired
US5753958A Back-biasing in asymmetric MOS devices Electricity 55 Expired
US5942781A Tunable threshold SOI device using back gate well Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US6831494B1 Voltage compensated integrated circuits Electricity 51 Expired
US6621318B1 Low voltage latch with uniform sizing Electricity 45 Expired

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