Inventor · Boise, ID, US

Kenneth K. Smith

104Patents
16h-index
111Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 25, 1997 → Sep 28, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6961890B2 Dynamic variable-length error correction code Physics 159 Expired
US6873543B2 Memory device Physics 137 Expired
US7149950B2 Assisted memory device for reading and writing single and multiple units of data Physics 116 Expired
US7191379B2 Magnetic memory with error correction coding Physics 114 Expired
US7079436B2 Resistive cross point memory Physics 107 Expired
US6891768B2 Power-saving reading of magnetic memory devices Physics 97 Expired
US6781910B2 Small area magnetic memory devices Physics 95 Expired
US6914809B2 Memory cell strings Physics 92 Expired
US6990012B2 Magnetic memory device Physics 91 Expired
US6851018B2 Exchanging operation parameters between a data storage device and a controller Physics 83 Expired
US6128094A Printer having processor with instruction cache and compressed program store Physics 74 Expired
US6999366B2 Magnetic memory including a sense result category between logic states Physics 40 Expired
US6847544B1 Magnetic memory which detects changes between first and second resistive states of memory cell Physics 28 Expired
US6199147A Distributed-memory multiprocessor computer system with directory-based cache coherency with ambiguous mappings of cached data to main-memory locations Physics 19 Expired
US6839275B2 Memory system having control circuit configured to receive data, provide encoded received data to match a fault pattern in the array of memory cells Physics 18 Expired
US6751147B1 Method for adaptively writing a magnetic random access memory Physics 17 Expired
US6359642B1 Printer control system Physics 16 Expired
US7116576B2 Sensing the state of a storage cell including a magnetic element Physics 14 Expired
US6826094B1 Magnetic memory cell sensing with first and second currents Physics 14 Expired
US8594419B2 Method and apparatus for converting a color image to grayscale Electricity 14 Active
US6836422B1 System and method for reading a memory cell Physics 13 Expired
US6898134B2 Systems and methods for sensing a memory element Physics 13 Expired
US6055610A Distributed memory multiprocessor computer system with directory based cache coherency with ambiguous mapping of cached data to main-memory locations Physics 13 Expired
US6894938B2 System and method of calibrating a read circuit in a magnetic memory Physics 12 Expired
US6586989B2 Nonlinear digital differential amplifier offset calibration Electricity 12 Expired

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