Inventor · Saratoga, CA, US

John McCollum

159Patents
31h-index
52Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 24, 1981 → May 4, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4876220A Method of making programmable low impedance interconnect diode element Electricity 445 Expired
US4881114A Selectively formable vertical diode circuit element Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 331 Expired
US7459763B1 Reprogrammable metal-to-metal antifuse employing carbon-containing antifuse material Electricity 261 Expired
US7393722B1 Reprogrammable metal-to-metal antifuse employing carbon-containing antifuse material Electricity 261 Active
US7358601B1 Architecture for face-to-face bonding between substrate and multiple daughter chips Electricity 259 Expired
US7495473B2 Non-volatile look-up table for an FPGA Electricity 259 Active
US5070384A Electrically programmable antifuse element incorporating a dielectric and amorphous silicon interlayer Electricity 236 Expired
US5132571A Programmable interconnect architecture having interconnects disposed above function modules Electricity 202 Expired
US5457644A Field programmable digital signal processing array integrated circuit Physics 191 Expired
US5191241A Programmable interconnect architecture Electricity 132 Expired
US6356478B1 Flash based control for field programmable gate array Physics 132 Expired
US5614756A Metal-to-metal antifuse with conductive Electricity 109 Expired
US7170315B2 Programmable system on a chip Electricity 104 Expired
US5272101A Electrically programmable antifuse and fabrication processes Electricity 81 Expired
US4941028A Structure for protecting thin dielectrics during processing Electricity 76 Expired
US5909049A Antifuse programmed PROM cell Electricity 56 Expired
US5412244A Electrically-programmable low-impedance anti-fuse element Electricity 54 Expired
US6970383B1 Methods of redundancy in a floating trap memory element based field programmable gate array Physics 48 Expired
US5057451A Method of forming an antifuse element with substantially reduced capacitance using the LOCOS technique Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US8415650B2 Front to back resistive random access memory cells Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Active
US5670818A Electrically programmable antifuse Electricity 45 Expired
US5537056A Antifuse-based FPGA architecture without high-voltage isolation transistors Electricity 45 Expired
US5373169A Low-temperature process metal-to-metal antifuse employing silicon link Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US5592016A Antifuse with improved antifuse material Electricity 44 Expired
US5763898A Above via metal-to-metal antifuses incorporating a tungsten via plug Electricity 42 Expired

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