Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

John B. Dillon

60Patents
32h-index
45Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 8, 1987 → Feb 14, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6005895A Apparatus and method for multilevel signaling Electricity 237 Expired
US6359931B1 Apparatus and method for multilevel signaling Electricity 220 Expired
US5663661A Modular bus with single or double parallel termination Electricity 192 Expired
US5578940A Modular bus with single or double parallel termination Electricity 186 Expired
US5748914A Protocol for communication with dynamic memory Physics 175 Expired
US6504875B2 Apparatus for multilevel signaling Electricity 153 Expired
US5908333A Connector with integral transmission line bus Electricity 149 Expired
US5337285A Method and apparatus for power control in devices Physics 148 Expired
US5430676A Dynamic random access memory system Physics 146 Expired
US6234820A Method and apparatus for joining printed circuit boards Electricity 133 Expired
US5446696A Method and apparatus for implementing refresh in a synchronous DRAM system Physics 131 Expired
US6643752B1 Transceiver with latency alignment circuitry Physics 131 Expired
US5511024A Dynamic random access memory system Physics 96 Expired
US6002589A Integrated circuit package for coupling to a printed circuit board Electricity 86 Expired
US6094075A Current control technique Electricity 85 Expired
US5088033A Data processing system emulation in a window with a coprocessor and I/O emulation Physics 85 Expired
US6462591B2 Semiconductor memory device having a controlled output driver characteristic Electricity 82 Expired
US5764963A Method and apparatus for performing maskable multiple color block writes Physics 73 Expired
US6470405B2 Protocol for communication with dynamic memory Physics 72 Expired
US6007357A Chip socket assembly and chip file assembly for semiconductor chips Electricity 70 Expired
US6591353B1 Protocol for communication with dynamic memory Physics 69 Expired
US5680361A Method and apparatus for writing to memory components Physics 67 Expired
US6619973B2 Chip socket assembly and chip file assembly for semiconductor chips Electricity 64 Expired
US6608507B2 Memory system including a memory device having a controlled output driver characteristic Electricity 64 Expired
US6810449B1 Protocol for communication with dynamic memory Physics 60 Expired

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