Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Kenneth S. McElvain

107Patents
21h-index
34Co-inventors
86Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 5, 1998 → Dec 8, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7366997B1 Methods and apparatuses for thermal analysis based circuit design Physics 233 Expired
US6449762B1 Maintaining correspondence between text and schematic representations of circuit elements in circuit synthesis Physics 116 Expired
US6438735B1 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits Physics 94 Expired
US7240303B1 Hardware/software co-debugging in a hardware description language Physics 78 Expired
US6711729B1 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits using automatic reallocation techniques Physics 74 Expired
US7093204B2 Method and apparatus for automated synthesis of multi-channel circuits Physics 67 Expired
US6182268A Methods and apparatuses for automatic extraction of finite state machines Physics 54 Expired
US7827510B1 Enhanced hardware debugging with embedded FPGAS in a hardware description language Physics 52 Active
US6519754B1 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits Physics 52 Expired
US6389586B1 Method and apparatus for invalid state detection Physics 43 Expired
US6668364B2 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits Physics 37 Expired
US7200822B1 Circuits with modular redundancy and methods and apparatuses for their automated synthesis Physics 32 Expired
US7251800B2 Method and apparatus for automated circuit design Physics 31 Expired
US7943436B2 Integrated circuit devices and methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuit devices Electricity 28 Active
US7278120B2 Methods and apparatuses for transient analyses of circuits Physics 27 Expired
US7237214B1 Method and apparatus for circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design Physics 25 Expired
US7178118B2 Method and apparatus for automated circuit design Physics 25 Expired
US7627844B2 Methods and apparatuses for transient analyses of circuits Physics 24 Active
US6687882B1 Methods and apparatuses for non-equivalence checking of circuits with subspace Physics 24 Expired
US6973632B1 Method and apparatus to estimate delay for logic circuit optimization Physics 24 Expired
US7350173B1 Method and apparatus for placement and routing cells on integrated circuit chips Physics 21 Expired
US7739624B2 Methods and apparatuses to generate a shielding mesh for integrated circuit devices Electricity 20 Active
US6691286B1 Methods and apparatuses for checking equivalence of circuits Physics 19 Expired
US6904576B2 Method and system for debugging using replicated logic Physics 19 Expired
US6643829B1 Reducing clock skew in clock gating circuits Physics 19 Expired

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