Inventor · Portola Valley, CA, US

James D. Plummer

21Patents
11h-index
22Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 17, 1974 → Oct 31, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6229161A Semiconductor capacitively-coupled NDR device and its applications in high-density high-speed memories and in power switches Electricity 534 Expired
US4199774A Monolithic semiconductor switching device Electricity 105 Expired
US4682405A Methods for forming lateral and vertical DMOS transistors Electricity 41 Expired
US3979711A Ultrasonic transducer array and imaging system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US7195959B1 Thyristor-based semiconductor device and method of fabrication Electricity 31 Expired
US6448586B1 Semiconductor current-switching device having operational enhancer and method therefor Electricity 27 Expired
US6528356B2 Manufacture of semiconductor capacitively-coupled NDR device for applications such as high-density high-speed memories and power switches Electricity 21 Expired
US7498243B2 Crystalline-type device and approach therefor Electricity 19 Expired
US6727529B2 Semiconductor capacitively-coupled NDR device and related applications in high-density high-speed memories and in power switches Electricity 15 Expired
US7075122B1 Thyristor device with carbon lifetime adjustment implant and its method of fabrication Electricity 12 Expired
US7508701B1 Negative differential resistance devices and approaches therefor Electricity 12 Active
US6967358B2 Thyristor-type memory device Electricity 9 Expired
US10435814B2 Single metal crystals Chemistry; Metallurgy 7 Active
US4825269A Double heterojunction inversion base transistor Electricity 6 Expired
US7749872B2 Crystalline-type device and approach therefor Electricity 4 Active
USRE33209E Monolithic semiconductor switching device General 3 Expired
US4523293A Two-dimensional bulk acoustic wave correlator-convolver Physics 3 Expired
US7488626B1 Thyristor device with carbon lifetime adjustment implant and its method of fabrication Electricity 1 Active
US7858449B2 Thyristor device with carbon lifetime adjustment implant and its method of fabrication Electricity 1 Active
US7592642B1 Thyristor-based semiconductor device with indium-carbon implant and method of fabrication Electricity 1 Active
US7365373B2 Thyristor-type memory device Electricity 0 Expired

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