Inventor · Fridley, MN, US

Kenneth E. Merryman

8Patents
7h-index
7Co-inventors
42Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 19, 1996 → Jan 27, 1997

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6708144B1 Spreadsheet driven I/O buffer synthesis process Physics 93 Expired
US6718520B1 Method and apparatus for selectively providing hierarchy to a circuit design Physics 65 Expired
US5980092A Method and apparatus for optimizing a gated clock structure using a standard optimization tool Physics 53 Expired
US5864487A Method and apparatus for identifying gated clocks within a circuit design using a standard optimization tool Physics 31 Expired
US5956256A Method and apparatus for optimizing a circuit design having multi-paths therein Physics 31 Expired
US6026220A Method and apparatus for incremntally optimizing a circuit design Physics 29 Expired
US5940604A Method and apparatus for monitoring the performance of a circuit optimization tool Physics 10 Expired
US5960184A Method and apparatus for providing optimization parameters to a logic optimizer tool Physics 5 Expired

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