Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

John C. Holst

40Patents
17h-index
27Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 22, 1993 → Feb 16, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5920515A Register-based redundancy circuit and method for built-in self-repair in a semiconductor memory device Physics 88 Expired
US5598115A Comparator cell for use in a content addressable memory Physics 80 Expired
US5964884A Self-timed pulse control circuit Electricity 70 Expired
US6157244A Power supply independent temperature sensor Physics 57 Expired
US5446685A Pulsed ground circuit for CAM and PAL memories Physics 48 Expired
US5299147A Decoder scheme for fully associative translation-lookaside buffer Physics 45 Expired
US5790461A Register file with bypass capability Physics 26 Expired
US6153912A SOI with conductive metal substrate used as VSS connection Electricity 26 Expired
US5999039A Active power supply filter Electricity 24 Expired
US6188596A Layout for semiconductor memory including multi-level sensing Physics 24 Expired
US6127880A Active power supply filter Electricity 22 Expired
US6157584A Redundancy circuit and method for semiconductor memory Physics 22 Expired
US5883826A Memory block select using multiple word lines to address a single memory cell row Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US6058447A Handshake circuit and operating method for self-resetting circuits Physics 19 Expired
US6213869A MOSFET-type device with higher driver current and lower steady state power dissipation Electricity 18 Expired
US6054918A Self-timed differential comparator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US6051881A Forming local interconnects in integrated circuits Electricity 17 Expired
US6084454A Start-up circuit for write selects and equilibrates Electricity 17 Expired
US6376880B1 High-speed lateral bipolar device in SOI process Electricity 15 Expired
US6420767B1 Capacitively coupled DTMOS on SOI Electricity 15 Expired
US5796651A Memory device using a reduced word line voltage during read operations and a method of accessing such a memory device Physics 14 Expired
US7450438B1 Crossbar apparatus for a forwarding table memory in a router Electricity 13 Expired
US5844836A Memory cell having increased capacitance via a local interconnect to gate capacitor and a method for making such a cell Electricity 12 Expired
US5940334A Memory interface circuit including bypass data forwarding with essentially no delay Electricity 12 Expired
US6146954A Minimizing transistor size in integrated circuits Electricity 11 Expired

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