Michael J. Collins
130Patents
31h-index
96Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: May 3, 1976 → Oct 27, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5210850A | Memory address space determination using programmable limit registers with single-ended comparators | Physics | 481 | Expired |
| US4763353A | Terminal based adjunct call manager for a communication system | Electricity | 209 | Expired |
| US6286083A | Computer system with adaptive memory arbitration scheme | Physics | 176 | Expired |
| US5537555A | Fully pipelined and highly concurrent memory controller | Physics | 119 | Expired |
| US5721935A | Apparatus and method for entering low power mode in a computer system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 94 | Expired |
| US5524235A | System for arbitrating access to memory with dynamic priority assignment | Physics | 91 | Expired |
| US6275885A | System and method for maintaining ownership of a processor bus while sending a programmed number of snoop cycles to the processor cache | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US7468723B1 | Apparatus and method for creating large display back-lighting | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 63 | Active |
| US6160562A | System and method for aligning an initial cache line of data read from local memory by an input/output device | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US5549285A | Wire rope isolator with crimp bar and method for making same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 54 | Expired |
| US5325511A | True least recently used replacement method and apparatus | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US4554132A | Analytical apparatus for determining volatiles, solids, and solvent extractables in a sample | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 52 | Expired |
| US6801645B1 | Computer aided detection of masses and clustered microcalcifications with single and multiple input image context classification strategies | Physics | 51 | Expired |
| US6055495A | Speech segmentation | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US4681996A | Analytical process in which materials to be analyzed are directly and indirectly heated and dried by microwave radiation | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US7397677B1 | Apparatus and method for charge pump control with adjustable series resistance | Electricity | 46 | Active |
| US6209067A | Computer system controller and method with processor write posting hold off on PCI master memory request | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US6744024B1 | Reaction and temperature control for high power microwave-assisted chemistry techniques | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 46 | Expired |
| US5634073A | System having a plurality of posting queues associated with different types of write operations for selectively checking one queue based upon type of read operation | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US6202101A | System and method for concurrently requesting input/output and memory address space while maintaining order of data sent and returned therefrom | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US5949436A | Accelerated graphics port multiple entry gart cache allocation system and method | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US8418254B2 | Applicant screening | Electricity | 41 | Active |
| US4566804A | Apparatuses, processes and articles for controllably heating and drying materials by microwave radiation | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US6247102A | Computer system employing memory controller and bridge interface permitting concurrent operation | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6272651A | System and method for improving processor read latency in a system employing error checking and correction | Physics | 40 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.