Inventor · Zumbrota, MN, US

John E. Sheets, II

151Patents
16h-index
50Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 13, 1996 → May 10, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7227183B2 Polysilicon conductor width measurement for 3-dimensional FETs Electricity 195 Expired
US6121659A Buried patterned conductor planes for semiconductor-on-insulator integrated circuit Electricity 83 Expired
US6774734B2 Ring oscillator circuit for EDRAM/DRAM performance monitoring Physics 60 Expired
US7183780B2 Electrical open/short contact alignment structure for active region vs. gate region Electricity 57 Expired
US6492244B1 Method and semiconductor structure for implementing buried dual rail power distribution and integrated decoupling capacitance for silicon on insulator (SOI) devices Electricity 42 Expired
US5872697A Integrated circuit having integral decoupling capacitor Electricity 33 Expired
US5889306A Bulk silicon voltage plane for SOI applications Electricity 28 Expired
US6498057B1 Method for implementing SOI transistor source connections using buried dual rail distribution Electricity 24 Expired
US6429099B1 Implementing contacts for bodies of semiconductor-on-insulator transistors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7009905B2 Method and apparatus to reduce bias temperature instability (BTI) effects Physics 20 Expired
US8525245B2 eDRAM having dynamic retention and performance tradeoff Electricity 20 Active
US6287901A Method and semiconductor structure for implementing dual plane body contacts for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors Electricity 19 Expired
US6667518B2 Method and semiconductor structure for implementing buried dual rail power distribution and integrated decoupling capacitance for silicon on insulator (SOI) devices Electricity 18 Expired
US6670716B2 Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor structure for implementing transistor source connections using buried dual rail distribution Electricity 17 Expired
US9455313B1 High-density integrated circuit via capacitor Electricity 17 Active
US7241649B2 FinFET body contact structure Electricity 16 Expired
US6645796B2 Method and semiconductor structure for implementing reach through buried interconnect for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices Electricity 16 Expired
US8816470B2 Independently voltage controlled volume of silicon on a silicon on insulator chip Electricity 15 Active
US8549363B2 Reliability and performance of a system-on-a-chip by predictive wear-out based activation of functional components Physics 15 Active
US8492220B2 Vertically stacked FETs with series bipolar junction transistor Electricity 12 Active
US9024387B2 FinFET with body contact Electricity 10 Active
US10037792B1 Optimizing data approximation analysis using low power circuitry Physics 10 Active
US9916890B1 Predicting data correlation using multivalued logical outputs in static random access memory (SRAM) storage cells Physics 10 Active
US7727887B2 Method for improved power distribution in a three dimensional vertical integrated circuit Electricity 10 Active
US8754417B2 Vertical stacking of field effect transistor structures for logic gates Electricity 10 Active

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