Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Joseph Ku

22Patents
10h-index
25Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 26, 1998 → Mar 12, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8631247B2 System and method for hardware based security Electricity 108 Active
US7183924B1 Storing configuration information and a service record for an item in an RFID tag Physics 98 Expired
US6351172B1 High-speed output driver with an impedance adjustment scheme Electricity 53 Expired
US6492854B1 Power efficient and high performance flip-flop Electricity 29 Expired
US7432816B1 Printed circuit board with RFID antenna Electricity 23 Expired
US6384331B1 Secured reinforcing support device for a heat sink Electricity 18 Expired
US6347029B1 Over-current protection circuit for linear voltage regulators Physics 16 Expired
US6907534B2 Minimizing power consumption in pipelined circuit by shutting down pipelined circuit in response to predetermined period of time having expired Physics 13 Expired
US6910155B2 System and method for chip testing Physics 12 Expired
US8606206B1 Traveling wave beamforming network Electricity 10 Active
US6145062A Selective conflict write flush Physics 10 Expired
US6874014B2 Chip multiprocessor with multiple operating systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6600328B2 Analog method and circuit for monitoring digital events performance Physics 5 Expired
US6940770B2 Method for precharging word and bit lines for selecting memory cells within a memory array Physics 5 Expired
US6851064B2 Fine-grained thermal control in memory subsystems Physics 4 Expired
US6982197B2 Method and apparatus for building up large scale on chip de-coupling capacitor on standard CMOS/SOI technology Electricity 4 Expired
US7087439B2 Method and apparatus for thermally assisted testing of integrated circuits Physics 4 Expired
US6886117B2 Field repairable embedded memory in system-on-a-chip Physics 3 Expired
US6889349B2 Digital event sampling circuit and method Electricity 2 Expired
US6826112B2 Low power logic gate Electricity 2 Expired
US6504746B2 High-density low-cost read-only memory circuit Electricity 1 Expired
US7248518B2 Self-timed memory device providing adequate charging time for selected heaviest loading row Physics 1 Expired

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