Joseph P. Kerzman
19Patents
14h-index
29Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 9, 1994 → Aug 7, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6684376B1 | Method and apparatus for selecting components within a circuit design database | Physics | 185 | Expired |
| US6889370B1 | Method and apparatus for selecting and aligning cells using a placement tool | Physics | 113 | Expired |
| US6029205A | System architecture for improved message passing and process synchronization between concurrently executing processes | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US5696693A | Method for placing logic functions and cells in a logic design using floor planning by analogy | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US6516456B1 | Method and apparatus for selectively viewing nets within a database editor tool | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US5724250A | Method and apparatus for performing drive strength adjust optimization in a circuit design | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US5555396A | Hierarchical queuing in a system architecture for improved message passing and process synchronization | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US5726903A | Method and apparatus for resolving conflicts between cell substitution recommendations provided by a drive strength adjust tool | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US5719783A | Method and apparatus for performing timing analysis on a circuit design | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US6701289B1 | Method and apparatus for using a placement tool to manipulate cell substitution lists | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5912820A | Method and apparatus for distributing a clock tree within a hierarchical circuit design | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US6910200B1 | Method and apparatus for associating selected circuit instances and for performing a group operation thereon | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5577259A | Instruction processor control system using separate hardware and microcode control signals to control the pipelined execution of multiple classes of machine instructions | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6546532B1 | Method and apparatus for traversing and placing cells using a placement tool | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US7076410B1 | Method and apparatus for efficiently viewing a number of selected components using a database editor tool | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US5611065A | Address prediction for relative-to-absolute addressing | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US10153775B1 | Phase interpolator | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US10425090B2 | Phase interpolator | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10840924B2 | Phase interpolator | Physics | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.